“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday Israel hoped to begin indirect negotiations with the Palestinians next week during a visit by Washington’s Middle East envoy. Palestinian officials said they wanted the US-mediated talks to focus initially on defining the borders of a state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With the blessing of the Arab League, the Palestinians have agreed to four months of indirect negotiations sponsored by Washington, which has been trying to break a deadlock and revive the two-decade-old peace process”
“France suggested on Sunday the international community might recognise a Palestinian state before its borders had been fixed, in order to break a stalemate in Middle East peacemaking. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner floated the idea in a newspaper interview, published hours before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Paris for talks on Monday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, on a visit to Jordan, said Kouchner’s proposal showed France’s willingness ‘to accelerate the (peace) process, to take initiatives that will kick off negotiations, which are taking too long to start’ “
“Britain has flatly denied any foreknowledge of a Mossad plan to assassinate a top official of the Palestinian group Hamas, in Dubai, amidst angry accusations in Whitehall that Israel is seeking to deflect blame from itself by implicating others. British government sources dismissed as “nonsense” a report claiming the Israeli secret service had given the UK advanced warning of possible complications arising from the illicit use of British passports in an unspecified “overseas operation” – the murder of the Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh”
“Two Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel could provide the first concrete evidence linking Tel Aviv to the assassination of a senior Hamas leader. The killing has prompted an international row over the theft of identities from European citizens to provide false passports for the assassins during their mission to kill Mahmoud alMabhouh at his Dubai hotel”
“US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for more pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear program on a Gulf visit aimed at promoting Arab-Israeli peace and improving US ties with the Islamic world. Speaking at a conference on US-Muslim relations, Clinton solicited regional support to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks”
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he had asked the United States to clarify its offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel before he would announce any decision to resume the negotiations. ’Yesterday I met with an American delegation and we held an Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian trilateral meeting,’ Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo”
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