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| Brown meets Olmert for peace talks in London |
| 2008-12-17 |
| (AKI) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is believed to have asked his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert to ease financial constraints in the Palestinian territories. The two leaders met at Downing Street a day after Brown met Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Brown and Olmert were meeting in London after the United Nations joined the United States, Russia and the European Union in calling for intensified Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for Middle East peace on Monday. The so-called Quartet met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York and called on the Palestinians to continue their efforts to reform the security services and dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism. At the same time, the group called on Israel to freeze all settlement activities, which have a negative impact on the negotiating environment and on Palestinian economic recovery, and to address the growing threat of settler extremism. But peace was once again under threat on Tuesday after four Qassam rockets were fired on Israel from the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli media reports, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility for the incident. The attack took place a day after the Israeli army assassinated a leader of the al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank city of Jenin. While no injuries were reported in the rocket attacks, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for security forces to immediately close the crossings to Gaza and stop the planned transfer of aid into the Strip. A six-month truce between Israel and the Gaza Strip is set to expire on Friday. Leaders from the Islamist Hamas movement said it would not be renewed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Is Brown willing to stop attacking Israel? Or has Olmert come to Surrender? |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-12-17 23:57 |
| #1 Exchange experince on "how to Islimize your country". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-17 03:54 |