Abu Mazen: Olmert Agreed to Make Jerusalem Arab Capital

Areutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 9/24/7 | Hillel Fendel

[SmithL]

(IsraelNN.com) The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice last week - and told her that Prime Minister Olmert agrees, finally, to turn eastern Jerusalem into the capital of a future state of Palestine. So reports the PA newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadeeda, quoting an unnamed "senior Palestinian source."

Abbas reportedly told Rice that Olmert had agreed to the demand in an Olmert-Abbas meeting a couple of days before. Another Olmert-Abbas meeting is planned for next week, the paper reports.

Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports on another PA media article. The Palestinian Press claims that Iran has given the order to Hamas and Islamic Jihad to reduce Kassam rocket attacks against Israel during the month of Ramadan, in order to reduce the suffering of Arab citizens in Gaza during this period. Hamas chief-in-exile Khaled Mashaal reportedly told Iran that though Hamas agrees to hold fire, Islamic Jihad does not.

Meanwhile, plans continue for U.S. President George Bush's international Middle East summit, scheduled for this November in Washington. Secretary Rice announced Sunday night that Syria and Lebanon will also be invited to take part, though they will have to commit themselves to help find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is not happy with the summit. "Without advance preparations and without an objective," he said, "I don't see what can come of it, and I don't see any reason to convene the summit."

High-level meetings of this nature are often accompanied by Arab violence and terrorism, and some fear that such violence this time will only intensify if the summit does not produce results favorable to the Arab side.

[arthurus]

The Islamic War is one we will fight and probably win- certainly win if we bite the bullet and do it now, less certainly and far more expensively and sanguinarily if we dodge Iran now. It will come no matter what we do to pacify the little places. Our putting it off and diddling around on the periphery of The Beast only convinces the emirs and mullahs that we do not understand this war and are afraid of it and won’t really fight.They grow stronger and Jihad spreads throughout the paynim world. So maybe when we do have to do it, maybe because Indianapolis has just lost its center to a nuke, we will have to subdue and destroy Pakistan and Egypt and Saudia Arabia as well as Iran. The outcome will be less certain then. Far cheaper in lives and resources if we do the job now while it only requires the smashing of Iran. A few years ago it only needed that Iraq be laid waste. That would have been easy. We didn’t do it.

[SunkenCiv]

I don’t take anything the terrorist Abu Mazen says as the truth.