Even the Peace House — a run-down bungalow east of the railroad tracks that had served as base for peace activists since 2003 — was deserted, its shutters drawn behind a sign that said "No Preemptive Armageddon".
Even the Peace House a run-down bungalow east of the railroad tracks that had served as base for peace activists since 2003 was deserted, its shutters drawn behind a sign that said "No Preemptive Armageddon".
When they won US and Afghan government approval last year to open an office in Qatar as a possible base for peace talks, they put a plaque and flag up outside their diplomatic-zone villa that made it look like nearby embassies.
Their Geneva Communique, which calls for a transitional government based on "mutual consent", has become the basis for peace talks in the Swiss city.
Back in Manhattan for a 'City Boy' ADAM R. BRONFMAN, an heir to the Bronfman family fortune and the managing director of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, considers himself a creature of the city, but he left New York, where the family's Seagram liquor business was based, for the peace and serenity of the Southwest.
ADAM R. BRONFMAN, an heir to the Bronfman family fortune and the managing director of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, considers himself a creature of the city, but he left New York, where the family's Seagram liquor business was based, for the peace and serenity of the Southwest.
This means securing Arab acquiescence for the deal that was emerging in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Taba in January 2001.Like the Saudi plan, this was based on "land for peace".
Addressing a hundred and twenty guests, and being peppered with questions about the Middle East, Obama trotted around all the usual bases — the hope for peace, the still strong alliance with Israel, the danger of "lone wolf" terror threats.
He explained in his letter that he found himself no longer able to represent Israel because the government of Binyamin Netanyahu had no interest in a peace process based on land for peace and designed to end the conflict with the Palestinians.Government spokesmen, he wrote, had repeatedly rejected the international demand that Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.
Such an initiative would be similar to the Venice declaration of 1980, when Britain and a group of other leading European countries defined a negotiating framework for Israel and the Arabs based on land for peace (which turned into the idea of a two-state solution).
He added that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations based on a territory-for-peace formula were bound to fail.
