Word: palestinians
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...Responding to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's invitation to all Arab leaders to visit Israel to discuss the Arab peace initiative, Prince Saud said that Arabs were looking for a "clear sign of interest, not just words," such as a freeze on Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories...
...TIME: Your reaction to the Palestinian infighting...
...TIME: Does the fighting jeopardize the Mecca Agreement [creating the Palestinian unity government] negotiated by Saudi Arabia...
...Prince Saud: The government, when it was formed, it was to lead the Palestinian people towards the negotiated settlement. But if fighting continues, and spreads, and the government falls, then that would be catastrophic for the cause of peace. Certainly there will not be any reasonable expectation of success [for the Arab peace initiative] without a return to unity between the Palestinians...
When Gaza is aflame, Sderot is typically the first Israeli town to feel the heat. The small town of about 23,00 people perched on a pleasant bit of countryside near the Gaza Strip is within easy range of the homemade, unguided, Qassam rockets fired by Palestinian militants across the fence. And with Gaza spiraling into a chaotic Palestinian civil war, at least 70 rockets have been fired into Israel over the past two days, several of them landing in Sderot. One even hit a building near the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a Sderot native...