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He said there had been "six or seven years of very deep freeze" in the peace process and called for "compromises". Mr Miliband met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday and will meet Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on Monday. Refugees Negotiations in Annapolis, near Washington DC, later this month are expected to focus on the future for Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. They will also look at the future of Palestinian refugees, many of whom lost their homes when Israel was created almost 60 years ago. And they will aim to create a Palestinian state. After his talks with Ms Livni, Mr Miliband said: "The critical thing, obviously, is that after six or seven years of very deep freeze in the Middle East peace process, that we get the process back on track. "The message that I'm giving is that in the end it's going to be for people on the ground, leaders here in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority, to make the decisions and compromises. "But the international community - including the UK - have an important role to play in supporting the process." The Annapolis talks had been billed as the most serious attempt to restart the peace process in seven years. But BBC Middle East correspondent Paul Wood said expectations for the US meeting had fallen through the floor. Britain is promising £250m to back up the peace process, if it can be re-established. Source: BBC News           Readers have left 3 comments.
Islamic Torch:
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What a wonderful idea - now why didn't anyone else think up this idea about the peace process. Let us know when it actually happens - talk is cheap and all politicians are good at that ... lets see some action. I have nothing against the Jews who actually live in Israel, its the parasites - the so called settlements that need to be picked up and thrown into the sea, they are the cause of this unrest.
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2007-11-19 07:54:09
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Although the Israelis find pulling the settlers out, they have demonstrated in Sinai and Gaza that they are willing to do it.
The question must be can the Palestinians commit to peace and the complexity of peaceful co-existance? My own view is that they can't, simply because they have not yet embarked upon the internal process of comming terms with their own responsibilities for the mess they are in. It isn't the Israelis that have failed to develop an effective civil administration, stable jurisprudence, honest policeforce, a controllable army and the conditions for economic development. The chaos in Gaza and the West Bank is largely of the Palestinians own making with a little help from their friends. What nation on earth remains 15+ years later entirely dependent upon their enemy to collect tax for it?
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2007-11-22 21:02:59
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This is the same person who sided with blair / brown (same thing really) inbed with israel & fully supporting the idea of no road map. This country & the whiole free world knows better not to trust this regime.
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2007-11-30 18:35:52
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said the Middle East peace process must get "back on track", after meeting his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni. 
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