Friday, July 04, 2008

Peacenik Shimon Peres: 'forget peace'


President Peres: No Chance of Peace with Palestinians -Yossi Verter

[A]t a dinner in Defense Minister Ehud Barak's home with the Jordanian and French ambassadors, President Shimon Peres [pictured above] said "it would be very hard to reach an agreement" with the Palestinians, due to the Hamas-Fatah split.

He said Abbas had no support among his people, no power to carry out security agreements, and that any agreement Israel and the PA made crumbled a day later.
(Ha'aretz)


The Unlikely Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
-Lt. Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

In Israel, many do not trust the PA. Even those who have always supported reconciliation with the Palestinians have begun to question whether Abbas and his colleagues can implement an agreement. No agreement can be achieved without the PA implementing law and order in the West Bank and Gaza.
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

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