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| Sarkozy to tell Olmert: Time for peace |
| 2007-10-20 |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday he would tell Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week that "now is the time" to make peace with the Palestinians. Olmert was planning to visit Paris on Monday, and Sarkozy said he would make the same case as the one he made to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last month in New York. "My message to Mr. Olmert will simply be that ... time has come to make peace," Sarkozy told a news conference after an EU summit in Lisbon. "Now is the time to take risks and build a lasting peace." On Thursday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was encouraged by a round of Mideast diplomacy being held in preparation for a US-hosted peace conference, planned for Annapolis, Maryland, later this year, despite divisions between Israel and the Palestinians that could derail it. Rice said four days of intense discussions with Israeli and Palestinian officials had convinced her they were serious about forging a document that, when endorsed at the conference in late November or December, would start the negotiations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 To hell with the peace, eL - I'll settle for the superior firepower. Soon. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-20 19:05 |
| #5 Now is the time for peace. Through superior firepower. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-10-20 17:58 |
| #4 If the Palestinians haven't cowed a spineless jellyfish like Olmert into making "peace", it isn't to be had. All of this is totally irrelevant anyway because the Palestinians DO NOT want peace. Sarkozy can talk until he's blue in the face but it will not bring any conciliation. If Nicolas wants peace, he needs to drag his Palestinian thugs to the table and threaten a complete shutdown of France's support for their genocidal farce of a kabuki act. Israel has made enough concessions to make peace with a dozen different civilized nations. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-20 15:50 |
| #3 Sarko is no worse than the State Department. They are all wrong, of course. Now is the time for war. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-10-20 10:46 |
| #2 Tell me again about the monumental change in French policies signalled by Sarko's election. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-10-20 07:25 |
| #1 Well, Sarky, dunno, but so far the "peace" initiatives resulted in disaster. Sorta like repeating the same and expecting different results. I'd say 's time for peace through superior firepower. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-20 04:42 |