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Engagement with Iran should be done in partnership with our allies in the region, namely Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They can help keep the Iranians (and Syrians) in check and look after Sunni interests. That requires one other ingredient: reigniting efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace, if and when the Palestinians form a new government willing to deal with Israel. The Israelis understand this; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has informally talked to the Saudis about relaunching their Arab peace plan...
...told the Zionist enemy we will meet it with many surprises ... and this is one of the surprises." ABU OBEIDEH, Hamas spokesman, on Palestinian grandmother Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Naja; the 64-year-old woman strapped on a suicide belt that detonated as she approached Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Three soldiers were slightly injured; only al-Naja died "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied...
...down on record as the briefest of cease-fires: Less than an hour after a 6 a.m. Sunday truce was to go into effect between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip, three rockets went thudding into empty fields in Israel. Nobody was hurt, but it was a sign that once again, the Palestinian authorities can make all the promises they want, but they cannot bring Gaza?s armed militant groups to heel...
...Israel acted with restraint, treating the trio of rockets as a few early hiccups in the cease-fire process. Says Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin: "Let's hope that's just the problems of the beginning. But if Israel is attacked, we will respond. If there are Palestinian factions that are not part of the cease-fire, it's hard to see how the cease-fire will hold...
...Saudi leadership will not and cannot allow Iran, through Syria and Hizballah, to bring down the Lebanese government and overtake the levers of power in Beirut." Obaid says the Saudi king is also expected to discuss with Cheney the kingdom's worries about Iranian activity in Iraq and the Palestinian territories as well as its alliance with Syria...