Jordan's Abdullah invites Israeli, Palestinian, U.S. delegates to talks

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Jordan's King Abdullah II has invited politicians and peace activists from Israel, the United States and the Palestinian territories for discussions in Amman as part of an effort to push forward the stalled Middle East peace process, officials said Saturday.

Among Israeli politicians due to visit Jordan next week is Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik.

The monarch plans to discuss "means of reviving the peace process on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative" that was readopted in an Arab summit conference Riyadh at the end of March, a senior royal court official said.

Abdullah urged Israelis earlier this week to respond to the Arab blueprint, which he said provided for a "rare opportunity" for achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Arab peace plan envisages extending recognition to Israel by all Arab states after it pulls out from all the Arab territories it gained in the 1967 Six Day War, including East Jerusalem.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848221.html

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1. Israel already rejected the Saudi proposal. They want the whole of Jerusalem!

Israel will never surrender East Jerusalem, preferring instead to remove the non-Jewish population out with the full blessings of the Jesus-worshiping Americans. The Israelis want the whole of Jerusalem, while the Americans need for Israel to have the whole of Jerusalem so that their precious Jesus returns to murder all the unbelievers. Nothing like the confluence of two intolerant religious points of view to damn the entire world!

Add to that sad mix, the equally intolerant view that Jerusalem should be entirely devoid of non-Islamic control, and you have the perfect storm of religious mumble-jumble putting the entire world at great peril.

The solution to the conflict does not lie in the same compromised players responsible for this mess. There is plenty of blame to go around and no one, and I mean no one, has clean hands.

The solution to this conflict will have to be imposed from without, and peace will have to be kept by superior military forces that exclude all the parties and their proxies. An international conference to settle the conflict is needed, with a repartitioning of the land, compensation of the displaced, and reparations to the Palestinians. At the end of this process, one will inevitably find Israel confined to her borders as they existed prior to June 1967. Sharon's Wall will be relocated to the new borders. Palestinians will have their state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

On the longer term, an internationally imposed settlement will not bring peace. Taking into consideration the dynamics of the sort of people one finds in that pathetic spot of the world, one can safely predict the following will happen in due course: The Palestinian state will split into two states, much as East Pakistan split from Pakistan. The conflict between the more urbane and rational Muslims on the West Bank and their more fundamentalist brethren in Gaza will be ignited now that they don't have Jews as their common enemy. Meanwhile, in Israel, long simmering disputes between the religious and the non-religious will come to the surface and may break out into civil war.

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2. This international community has allowed the to take it inch by inch and Israel has

operated under the premise that whatever agreement they come to with the Palestinians, they won't have to give up what they've stolen. And who's going to stop them?