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Peace Process

Peres - The whole world now supports Abbas


By Stan Goodenough
August 26, 2007

Israeli President Shimon Peres is excited by the fact that the entire international community now supports PLO/Fatah/PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Because of the high regard in which this tie-wearing veteran terrorist and Holocaust denier is now held, Peres told the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei Saturday there is at last a good chance the State of Palestine will become an established reality in the historical heartland of the Jewish people.

Peres, who was recently elected to what is supposed to be a non-partisan figurehead position limited to smiling for the camera as Israel's official representative and pardoning criminals, has made no secret of his determination to use his new platform to push forward the agenda of Israel's liberal left.

The creation of a Palestinian state would fulfill the vision the president has held for at least half of his political life.

Speaking to Nikkei, Peres said he hopes to have a clear and compelling plan drawn up to ensure good progress towards the birth of Palestine before the international Middle East "peace" conference that the United States will be sponsoring in November.

According to the [Ynetnews’]() report on the interview, Peres said he would seek to make peace with the Palestinian Arabs by offering economic aid in tandem with political negotiations - to buy off the Arab side, as it were.

While it would "take more time" to work out the details of the political if not the geographical outline of a future Palestinian state, Israel "can achieve an agreement" in principle before the peace conference, he said.

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