Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.In a telephone interview with Reuters after her meeting with Olmert, Ferrero-Waldner said she favoured holding another conference next year to follow up the one scheduled to be held in Annapolis, MarylandTWO-TRACK PROCESSWestern and Israeli officials described a two-track process coming out of Annapolis: the start of formal negotiations over a Palestinian state and a U.S.-monitored push to implement the first phase of the long-stalled "road map" peace plan.
The officials said Washington was considering holding a large follow-up meeting in mid-2008, bringing the two tracks together in a way the Palestinians hope will culminate in some sort of agreement on statehood.
By holding a follow-up meeting, the United States could offer the Palestinians a semblance of a timeline without setting firm deadlines opposed by Israel, Western diplomats said.
The first phase of the road map calls on the Palestinians to crack down on militants and Israel to halt Jewish settlement activity and uproot illegal outposts. Washington will determine if and when both sides have met their obligations.
"He (Olmert) very clearly made the point that he is serious about his commitment to launching this process and negotiating" final-status issues after Annapolis, Ferrero-Waldner said. "It is a process we want to launch, and not one conference only."
Those negotiations will be based on a joint document to be presented at Annapolis that will address final status issues but not propose specific solutions.
Ferrero-Waldner did not say if the EU supported Abbas's call for setting a timeline for talks, but added: "It's certainly important to see this process would not go on for too long."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abbas Friday tried to entice Olmert to accept the Arab initiative when he gave him a poster of 50 flags of Muslim and Arab states, ready to normalize relations with the Jewish state once it makes peace with the Palestinians.
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"The Israeli flag will fly in the capitals of 57 Arab [and Muslim] states - something that the fathers of Zionism did not dare to dream of," Sheikh Abdallah Nimr Darwish, the iconic founder of the Islamic Movement, said Tuesday night at an Iftar dinner hosted by President Shimon Peres at Beit Hanassi.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The peace process between Israel and Palestine, which will be revived in the U.S. city of Annapolis, Maryland next month, could take between three and five years to conclude, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Tuesday."If everything goes well, it's actually possible to solve all the problems in two to three years ," Peres told a group of visiting Indonesian journalists at his office.