By Yossi Verter
Tags: Palestinian, Peres
President Shimon Peres believes there is no chance of an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Peres, the one-time proponent of a "new Middle East" made this statement last Saturday at a dinner with the Jordanian and French ambassadors in Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Tel Aviv apartment.
At the end of the meal an argument erupted between the Jordanian envoy, Ali Ayed, and a well-known "dovish" attorney, who said Israel had no chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas' leadership. Barak supported his guest's hawkish stance.
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At a certain point, Peres intervened, surprising the participants by joining the attorney's prediction. "It would be very hard to reach an agreement," Peres said, 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 due to the PA's weakness. Therefore there is no chance of agreement, he summed.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998836.html
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Re: Peres: No chance of peace with Palestinians
Sat, July 5, 2008 - 12:50 AM
My god Carolyn.
What a shockingly misleading title for this article/thread.
This is a very, very different thing:
"He said Israel had no chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas' leadership."
He puts the blame not with Israel, or with the Palestinians as a whole, but with one ineffectual Palestinian leader.
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Re: Peres: No chance of peace with Palestinians
Sat, July 5, 2008 - 3:08 AM
His point is a good one, no matter the title or not.
If Abbas does not have the power to make a deal, if the people will not support him making a deal, if Hamas will not make a deal..............If Israel will make a deal kind of like how they would have made a deal at Camp David that Arafat walked away from..........
With whom is Israel to make a deal?
Carolyn? Care to comment? Do you have any bit of your own opinion about this?
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