Olmert wrote to Bernard Avishai, professor at the Hebrew University, that "Once the United Nations will lay the foundation for this idea, we in Israel will have to engage in a serious process of negotiations, in order to agree on specific borders based on the 1967 lines, and resolve the other issues.
We're not going to see a serious process or true leadership emerge until we restore real elections for the members of the state central committee.
Mr. Obama needs to regain his voice and press Mr. Suleiman to either begin a serious process of reform or get out of the way.
As an honest broker to the Middle East peace process, America needs to restore trust with the parties before a serious process can really begin.
It's a serious process that every single must go through in order to find the right partner and relationship.
A serious process must be established in the very near term either to formally treat and process the detainees as war criminals or to return them to their countries for appropriate judicial action".
To achieve this goal, we must get rid of the old generation, through a serious process of evaluation and selection, applying what Mark Anthony said before the dead body of Caesar: I came to bury him, not to praise him".
"This time, it's different because we are going to have a lot of participation in what I hope will launch a serious process of negotiations between us and the Palestinians," Mr. Olmert said.
"Although I don't want to put artificial time tables on that process, we do want to make sure that, by the end of this year, we've actually seen a serious process move forward," he said.
A quick-fix settlement to provide just enough cover for its war-weary coalition to pull their troops out before Afghanistan descends into a civil war; or a serious process that might offer an enduring peace?
