Sunday, November 25, 2007

Can you buy Peace ? Or pay $$$ to solve the Refugee issue ????

On Tuesday afternoon, after being delayed at the Qalandiyah checkpoint on his way into Israel from Ramallah, Saeb Bamya arrived at the Defense Ministry's offices in Tel Aviv. The former deputy minister for economic affairs in the Palestinian Authority entered the office of Major General (res.) Amos Gilad with Prof. Arie Arnon. Bamya and Arnon presented Gilad, the defense minister's representative on the team formulating a statement for the Annapolis summit, with a thick document that sets forth possible political-economic solutions for two of the major "core" issues: the Palestinian refugees and Jerusalem. For Bamya, the assessment of the Aix Group, comprised of Israeli, Palestinian and international experts, that the cost of resolving the issue of the right of return will run between $55 billion and $85 billion, is an entirely personal matter. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927203.html

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