Israel will live in peace if it makes peace with the Palestinians and ends its occupation of Arab lands, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said here Tuesday. “If there is peace between Israel and the Palestinians and the occupation of Arab lands ends, Israel will also live in a sea of peace, security and stability in the Middle East,” Abbas told a joint press conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul.
Abbas’s comments came ahead of a US-sponsored international conference later this year in Annapolis, Maryland, aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process that broke down seven years ago. “If this happens, there will no longer be wars or enmity and all the peoples in the region will live in security and stability,” the Palestinian leader said, speaking through a translator.
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