 Spain, Italy and France are to launch a new Middle East peace initiative, Spain's prime minister has said. "Peace between Israel and the Palestinians means to a large extent peace on the international scene," Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said.
He said a plan would be put to an EU summit in December and he hoped it would be backed by the UK and Germany.
The proposal would include an immediate ceasefire and the formation of a Palestinian unity government.
| Thus allowing the money spigot to be turned on. |
The other three components of the plan would involve an exchange of prisoners, talks between Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian Authority president and an international mission in Gaza to monitor a ceasefire.
| This means that the hard boyz currently jugged will be freed so that they can again murder Zionists. And it means that Olmert and Abbas can talk, which they can already do, and it means that someone's going to be part of UNIFIL-SOUTH. Oh boy. |
Mr Zapatero, currently playing host to French President Jacques Chirac, called for a major international conference on Middle East peace. "We cannot remain impassive in the face of the horror that continues to unfold before our eyes," Mr Zapatero said.
| Dead Joooz didn't bother him a lot, but dead Gazans can't be tolerated. |
"Violence has reached a level of deterioration that requires determined, urgent action by the international community."
For his part, Mr Chirac said the EU had to act in the face of "the increasingly dramatic situation". "We are going to act jointly with the Spanish and Italian governments, with the co-operation of the EU... to try to initiate the indispensable moral and political reforms in the Middle East," he added.
| Because the EU considers itself the moral leader of the world. |
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