While the media keeps fueling the bullshit of peace through Fatah and Abbas....and all is well now that Hamas is being isolated.... what a CROCK!!! Olmert rejected Rice proposal of agreement with Abbas.
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected, during his visit to the United States last week, a proposal by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel negotiate a permanent settlement with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas"....
The disagreement between Rice and Olmert was evident at the White House lunch meeting given by President George W. Bush for Olmert and senior U.S. and Israeli aides.
Olmert agreed several months ago to launch talks with Abbas over "a political horizon," on condition that these deal not with the three core issues - Jerusalem, permanent borders and the refugees - but only with the nature of the future Palestinian state, its systems of government and law and security arrangements for the territories.
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Olmert is strongly opposed to the idea. He believes that any settlement reached should be implemented, and fears a situation in which Israel approves the agreement, but Abbas fails to sell it to the Palestinian public. In that event, Israel might be pressured to make further concessions (further?? than what??) to make Abbas' task easier. (Source: Haaretz)
So, are you still expecting miracles to come out of Sharm meeting?
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