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| Middle East |
| Mubarak invites Sharon to Cairo... |
| 2003-02-01 |
| Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak invited Sharon to Cairo for talks aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process. It's the peace processor again. It's set on "puree," but the Arabs can't get the button to work... Such a meeting, which would be Sharon's first with an Arab leader since he took office nearly two years ago, was announced by Sharon's office on Wednesday, January 29, but was not confirmed in Egypt. Ibrahim Saada, editor in chief of the weekly Akhbar al-Yom, wrote of the telephone call Mubarak made to Sharon to congratulate him on his re-election and "his invitation to meet with him in Cairo to discuss (ways of) stopping the violence and re-launching the peace process." "Pop on down here to Cairo, and we'll do some negotiating to see how much of what you've accomplished can be undone..." Mubarak told Al-Ittihad newspaper in Dubai on Tuesday, January 28, that he felt Arab governments had to "deal with the Israeli prime minister in a new way" in order to re-launch the Middle East peace process. Speaking of Sharon's imminent re-election, the Egyptian leader said it would be "inopportune to stay quiet." What the Paleos have been doing hasn't been working. They were hoping to get a dovish government to jerk around, and they ended up solidifying Sharon's position. It's percolated through some skulls that they've got to start doing something else, preferably something that makes sense. The same information doesn't percolate through the Islamist skulls, though, and they're the ones who're in the driver's seat... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Nice point...no thank you |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-01 15:24:59 |
| #1 How would you like to be in charge of security for a Sharon Cairo trip? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-02-01 12:33:52 |