Kol Israel, citing Reuters, reports this morning that “A senior US official says the Annapolis peace summit is likely to take place in the last week of November. Reuters quotes the official as saying that participating countries will be represented [in Annapolis] at the ministerial level”.
See the post “Rice has left Jerusalem” on UN-Truth here.
Our informal poll of Palestinian man-on-the-street opinion of this on-going process: Ghaleb recounts (with a touch of sarcasm, if not scorn) that full-page ads have been placed in the main local Palestinian newspaper, al-Quds, urging the negotiators to conclude a peace deal within the next year or two…
Abu Firas recounts, with a resigned sigh, that it is said that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat — who negotiated a peace deal with Israel in the late 1970s, and was assassinated for the trouble, while Egypt was boycotted for several years by almost all Arab — told Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in 1979, come with me to Jerusalem, and you will get back all territories seized by Israeli in the June 1967 war. Arafat turned this offer down, Abu Firas said –so now, he added, “we have to kiss the hands of the Israelis to ask them to remove one checkpoint — just one checkpoint”.
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