The White house retried for the second time to bring peace in the Middle-East by inviting the Israeli and Palestinian leaders for peacetalks.
This conference is raising doubts on both sides, whether the two leaders can handle the peace processus.
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister and Mahmoud abbas the Palestinian President, are particularly criticized at home for their weakness as political leader.
According to the White house spokeswoman Dana Perrino, Georges W. Bush would emphasise that his committed to bring peace in Middle-east and he means it, within a year.
The Israeli press acknowledged the event with sceptisim.
The Yediot Aharonot daily declared “Only a miracle can complete it within a year”.
But Abbas seems to be confident asking his people to trust in the future and declared that an “independent Palestine is coming”.
He also asked Israel “to end up the settlements, to reopen the Palestinian institutions closed in East-Jerusalem, to dismantle non-authorized settlements, to lift all barriers and free the prisoners”
Olmert vowed that Israel was prepared to make a “painful compromise” to achieve piece.
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