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| Egypt wants IDF exit from PA areas before any talks on summit |
| 2002-05-04 |
| Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said on Saturday that Israel should first withdraw from re-occupied Palestinian areas before there could be any discussion of a Middle East peace conference. Maher was responding to reporters about plans announced by the United States to hold such a peace conference this summer. They should be done by this summer, we'd think... Maher said any such gathering should include Israelis and Palestinians, as well as Lebanon and Syria, both of which do not have peace agreements with Israel. He said Egypt and Jordan should also attend alongside Saudi Arabia, which proposed a peace plan that was adopted by Arab states at an Arab summit in March. In addition, he said the "quartet" should be present. I think the idea is to take the Soddi proposal and try and hammer something out based on that. Syria and its lapdog won't want to play. The Saudi Entity will use the meeting as a method of enhancing its prestige in the Arab world and will have its proxies make sure nothing of substance comes of it. You |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |