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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Putin invite |
| 2006-02-11 |
| Newspapers in Russia and Israel are surprised by President Putin's invitation to Hamas leaders to Moscow and see it as a sign of a split within the Quartet over Middle East policy, with one Israeli commentator calling it "a disgrace for Russia". Arabic papers appear more supportive of the initiative, with one arguing that neither Israel nor the US has the right "to tell Russia whom it can invite". While not commenting directly on the invitation, Palestinian papers repeat that Israel must make the first move towards peace and ask whether the Quartet will "be able to convince it to do so". Probably commercially related, they have some dough now and Puti has Kalashnikovs and RPG's. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |