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| Arafat gives blessing for Middle East peace talks |
| 2003-02-09 |
| Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are to resume on Monday. Oh, Christ! It's the peace processor again... The go ahead for the talks was agreed on at a secret meeting last week between Israel's newly re-elected Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Assembly, Ahmed Qurei. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has given his blessings to the talks although the Israelis have made it clear that replacing him is part of their plan. It's secret, so don't tell anybody, okay? Mr Arafat said the Palestinians were prepared for any talks which might lead to peace. Mr Sharon's chief of staff Dov Weisglass, who will lead the Israeli negotiators at Monday's meeting, is in Jordan to discuss the ceasefire proposal with Jordan's Foreign Minister. Israel's proposal calls for security co-operation to resume gradually in various parts of the occupied territories with the Palestinian Authority assuming responsibility for stopping attacks on Israel, in return for a withdrawal of Israeli troops. Yeah, yeah. Been there, done that. Yasser will tell his boyz to try and stop Hamas and Jihad from killing Israelis at random, if only for awhile, and they'll ignore him. He'll make some token gestures to stop them, and then there'll be a few shootouts between PNA and fundo gunnies... I guess something good will come of it. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Boy, I like these "secret" links! Peace talks will be just Jesse James dandy. After all, we are all just marking time till the new moon shows up (so to speak). |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-02-09 15:31:12 |