Optimism over Mideast peace may be premature

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MESS Report / Optimism over Mideast peace may be premature

Based on the burst of optimism among the Palestinian leaders after the Washington summit, Israel's right wing might have reason to start worrying.
By Avi Issacharoff

Based on the burst of optimism among the Palestinian leaders after the Washington summit, Israel's right wing might have reason to start worrying. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa is not a person known for his praise of Israeli government policy, now or in the past, or for slips of the tongue. But over the weekend he had plenty of positive things to say at a political and economic conference in Italy - things that indicate a real change in Middle East diplomacy.

Participants at the Ambrosetti Forum didn't expect such remarks from Moussa, who had asked that he be allowed to make comments after a speech by President Shimon Peres. After Peres praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said Israel was serious in its intentions to pursue peace, Moussa's audience expected him to make highly anti-Israel comments as he has made in the past.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-re...ature-1.312200

[mattfivefour]

Man may be optimistic over efforts in the Middle East. We never should be. The only hope for the Middle East, indeed for the world, is when Christ returns and rules from Jerusalem and the descendants of Abraham see Him whom they pierced and mourn for Him as a parent for an only child. Jesus is the Peace of Jerusalem. And between now and when He returns there will be only 3 and a half years of peace, under the Antichrist.