ISRAEL REJECTS PEACE TALKS WITH YASSER ARAFAT

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http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/09/10/14706.html

Israel rejected Palestinians' suggestion to hold Monday an urgent meeting between Palestinian National Authority leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

Palestinians suggested immediate talks on truce be conducted either in Cairo or in the Egyptian resort town of Taba.
According to observer estimations, Israel's refusal to speed-up an Arafat-Peres meeting is connected with acts of terrorism committed last Sunday that resulted in the death of five Israelis and wounded 112 more people. Acts of terrorism were committed in the Jordan Valley, at the Adam crossroads, where a bus with school teachers was fired at, in Nahariya (north of the country), and near Netanya, where kamikaze terrorists repeatedly exploded bombs.

However, according to certain estimations, the meeting between the two leaders will finally take place, but a bit later. It is likely to happen at the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.
Anyway, observers think, Israel would not like to hold the meeting with Arafat in Egypt, especially in Taba, because then the Palestinians might try to show it as a "successive" one in the light of the political negotiations they held in Taba with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

[sistersofmercy]

1. I hope the Israelis and Palestinians will somehow find a way to

peacefully exist with one another. I really think that headline should read Sharon rejects peace talks.

[bemildred]

2. Sounds like they might let Yassir out of his cage.

Still deathly afraid of anything that looks like the
Palestinians have any sort of traction at all. Reminds me
of the Black Knight in Monty Python:

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-04.htm

ARTHUR:
Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT:
'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR:
A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT:
No, it isn't.
ARTHUR:
Well, what's that, then?
BLACK KNIGHT:
I've had worse.
ARTHUR:
You liar!

[loudnclear]

3. No matter how it's spun...the world know what and who the real problem is

and Arafat is not to blame alone.

[Moderator]

4. Locking....please re-post in Foreign Affairs/.Israel/Palestine

Thanks!
DU Moderator