Raised voices at Mubarak-Abbas meeting over Cairo's acceptance of two Palestinian states
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 14, 2009, 11:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Putting a good public face on a bad quarrel
The conversation Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas held at Sharm e-Sheikh Tuesday July 14 was more like a shouting match, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources disclose. Abbas refused to listen to an Egyptian plan which accepted the Palestinian schism and partition between two territories.
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Obama resolves to directly sponsor resumed Israel-Syrian peace talks
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 14, 2009, 2:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
US envoy Fred Hoff asks Israel to resume talks with Syria from point of last interruption.
DEBKAfile's diplomatic and Washington sources disclose that Fred Hoff, head of the Syrian desk in George Mitchell's US Middle East mission, posed a question to Israeli's leaders, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud bark when he met them Monday, July 13: Is the incumbent government prepared to restart talks with Syria from the point at which ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert's exchanges with Syrian president Bashar Assad were interrupted last December?
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