CNN: Arab League head: Mideast peace process 'dead'

[DeepModem Mom]

Arab League head: Mideast peace process 'dead'
Saturday, July 15, 2006

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- The Middle East peace process is "dead," Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.

"Certain powers have given Israel every capacity to do whatever it wishes," and that had hit hopes for peace, he told a news conference after a heated meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, Egypt.

Only the United Nations Security Council had the power to do anything about the crisis now, he said.

"The council of ministers invites the Security Council to meet to study the Arab-Israeli conflict in all its aspects because of the failure of all efforts related to the peace process," Reuters quoted Moussa as saying.

Foreign ministers from 18 Arab League nations held the emergency, closed-door meeting to address Israel's attacks on Lebanon and on the Palestinian territory of Gaza....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/15/arab.league/index.html

[JI7]

1. it was unofficially dead ever since the Chimp came into power

it has always required an outsider to apply pressure to both sides. was hoping Tony Blair would do it but he is viewed as a pathetic poodle .

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. roadmap, quartet, colin, condi, jr. Failure was the only option.

[AnOhioan]

3. Dead? How about still-born?

None of the parties involved ever really wanted peace. Too much money to be made, too much power to be had.

[wtmusic]

4. The Road Map to Hell is alive and kicking

and multiplying...

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Alas, that "certain power" he refers to also sits on the

Security Council that he seems to be placing his faith in. Catch-22.

[killbotfactory]

6. Here's the Bush plan for peace

Isreal does whatever it wants. Everyone else? Bring it on.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Bush's views on the Middle East are shaped by the Bible

Israelites and the Philistines. Sodom and Gomorrah. Rapture. Second Coming.

Nope, there is no roadmap in the Bible.