[Al Arabiya Latest] European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated settlement, E.U. diplomats said.
The foreign ministers, meeting for a second day of talks in Brussels, adopted a text agreeing that Jerusalem should provide "the future capital of the two states," one diplomat said.
"If there is to be a genuine peace, a way must be found through negotiations to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two states," the ministers said in a statement.
| So are they in agreement with some of President Obama's advisers that if necessary troops must be sent to protect the Palestinian capital in Old Jerusalem from Israeli objections? Who will go: the overextended French troops, the German troops who only work Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, the Greek oh-so-unenthusiastic conscript troops (like a certain former Rantburg poster)? |
| I'm sure Chavez would love to send some Venezuelans. I'd expect him to do regular photo ops with the Palestinians, triumphantly proclaiming their soldiarity against the Jews and the Americans. |
| I'd prefer they send the Poles. The Poles have some history and a score to settle ... |
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