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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, were resuming the suspended peace talks, one day after Abbas had refused to publicly commit to a resumption.

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cherev
March 5, 2008, 12:32 p.m.
Interesting. One wonders how the Arab street will react to this?
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djrevelky
March 5, 2008, 12:36 p.m.
Fatah are the moderate Arabs...they only want to kill the jews moderately.
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nikkibabe
March 5, 2008, 12:47 p.m.
I don't think this Abbas gets it right. Someone should tell him that ANY peace process with opportunistic politicians from USA WILL NOT bring peace there.
He has to engage and include Syria, Jordan, Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Hamas in order to make any progress. A united Arab front peace plan will have more credibility to negotiate with Israel INSTEAD of ANY other plan brokered by USA.
USA wants to be there to protect its OIL interests and would not care less about peace and tranquility.
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Hobe
March 5, 2008, 8:37 p.m.
Peace talks between Israel and Fatah to start again, Riceâ;¦
This would be wonderful if it were True and both parties serious...
Until each Party can control their respective Extremists, long lasting Peace will Never come about...
Sad but True....
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nikkibabe
March 5, 2008, 8:45 p.m.
Mahatma Gandhi said " the greatness of a statesman belongs in his ability to meet, talk, persuade & negotiate with a counterpart who holds a gun to your head".
That is what he did exactly to the British who put him in prison with armed men around. He met the King of England on his terms, wearing traditional Indian dress!
If no country wants to engage Syria, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Hamas & Fatah in the same room, there is no ray of hope for any peace.
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walden3
March 5, 2008, 9:38 p.m.
The United States can't be a broker of peace in the region. There needs to be a sort of consortium.
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Daylight
March 6, 2008, 5:58 a.m.
Peace! who wants peace? If you want peace you must talk to people who are elected by the people, Palestinians elected Hamas they are the legitimate representative of the people. Peace cannot come to Palestine without their participation. Abbas is a puppet he cannot bring peace to anyone, he will only bring death to Palestinians.
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supercomment
March 6, 2008, 7:37 a.m.
Watch more:
http://video-info.info/news/Israel_Fatah
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Mutainia
March 9, 2008, 2:02 p.m.
If Abbas is trying to talk peace with Israel, it's probably one of two things. Either Israel is kicking booty, or, Abbas needs to regroup his forces. I've learned that peace treaties in Islam seem to only be allowed when the infidel has the possibility of doing a successful counter-attack, THWARTing the evil of Quran 9:1-5, and 29.
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Isabellass
June 17, 2008, 11:53 p.m.
Interesting.