Olmert Wants Peace Talks With Lebanon
Beirut, 10 Jun 08 - (AFP-Naharnet) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday suggested holding peace talks with Lebanon, following last month’s announcement of Israel’s indirect Turkish-mediated negotiations with Syria.
“I would have been glad had it been that after the announcement of the talks with Syria the Lebanese government announced its willingness to open direct bilateral talks with Israel,” a senior official quoted Olmert as saying in a cabinet meeting.
“I see many advantages in this,” he said.
Israel and Syria last month announced they were holding indirect negotiations brokered by Turkey, eight years after their last attempt at peacemaking broke down.
Israel went to war in Lebanon in July 2006 after Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack. The war lasted 34 days.
In 1982 Israel launched a full-scale invasion of Lebanon, where its forces remained until 2000.
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that’s funny, how these “old” presidents want to leave their mandate with negociations and agreements
June 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pmWell Olmert, you can’t have peace talks with the devil.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pmAre you out of your mind?
(Yes.)
O Israel, dump this Chamberlain before he is Judas goat of a new holocaust.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm