Officials from Israel, Japan, Jordan, PA discuss economic cooperation in Jericho

Actually, Double Click, Israel has accepted in principle the right of the Palestinians to exist in their own independent state: 1947, 1993, 2000, Roadmap to Peace. Also, Israel has adhered to UN resolutions. The demand to the Hamas based government at the time was made by the UN, EU, Russia and US was not made to Israel, and Israel, unlike Hamas, has never claimed that it would not adhere resolutions and signed agreements which Hamas has. And finally, Israel has never used violence against Palestine because such a political entity has never been in existence. But the call by the international community to Hamas was to cease terror, which of course they continue to use against Israel and Israelis. As for your re-writing of history, story-telling or "nerative writing" is the domain found in books of fiction. The Arab attempt to eliminate the state of Israel is reality, an every day reality that belongs in history books and not in the fiction section of the library and book shop.

Livni's facial expression in the picture with the foreign ministers of Jordan and Japan shows how much she is interested in promoting peace. Good photo-op. Keep it up. She knows how to play the game.

With each progressive step towards a sane outcome for Israel and the Palestinians, Lakshmi breathes no sighs of relief but just find more obstacles in her kitbag of wrongs, injustices, cabals and that favorite of the week, "quislings". This is like reading old East German Stasi Disinformation 101. I am convinced that when the Palestinians and Israelis sign the papers that finally brings the peaceful change most of the people of both nations want, Lakshmi will tell us it's bad, or zionist or satanic or something.

Come on Avihu. You can't expect to negotiate with Hamas in the same manner that you negotiate with "dummies". If Israel wasn’t always so self-serving, they’d: 1)Accept in principal Palestinian’s right to exist, which they clearly haven't done and may in fact have no intention to do. 2)Adhere to all United Nations resolutions, which they violate frequently and consistently. 3)Cease all acts of terror and violence against Palestine and Palestinians, as they routinely do. What makes Israelis so special? Prior to 1948, many Palestinians had roots, in what is now called Palestine, for hundreds of years. And many women and children were massacred in 1948 by Irgun, Lehi and Haganah "right wing" forces. How come there has never been an official apology from the Israeli government? I consider many factions in the Israeli government as just as subhuman as the most ferocious members of Hamas.

to help israel's land grab&control of water,but also to separate Palestinians from their agricultural base.It will be interesting to see how far israel can control water once a sovereign Palestinian state comes into being.The japanese inspired agri business project requires a lot of water.No wonder the quislings & israel are muttering words like principles,not final status . . . Let's see how much money is going to be passed under the table. . .Erakat is increasingly beginning to look like a middleman & ofcourse the quisling abbas went with Peres early this year to japan.No wonder he has been silent about the cunning fox's 5% trade off of West Bank land. . .whew !

A people who never did worked towards anything except finding ways to engage in terror. Such attention, funding and assistance to African nations would have lowered starvation rates, perhaps avoided the inhuman wars that really do occur out of hopelessness beyond their control together with a lack of assistance and a breakdown of government,and of course AIDs. Africans will embrace real jobs offered by wealthier nations. Can you imagine an African people thrashing the farms left to them as palestinians did in Gaza ..except perhaps Mugabe's government as he like the palestinians, places Hate above all else. But I do not think there is a less deserving people on the face of the earth than the Arabs of Judea & Samaria & Gaza. Let's see if they destroy this as they have everything else handed them on a silver platter.

I can see some tunnels being dug under this corridor.

Lakshm, please tell us how this is a Japanese-Jordanian-Israeli-Fatah plot to subvert Hamas, the legitimate owners of Palestine.

Hmmm, I imagine that Tzipi just loved the comments from Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso and Sa'eb. Isn't it just written all over her face? She needs to learn to fake it better...maybe take some lessons from Condi?

part of any positive development in our region so long as it does not adhere to the three requirements expected of it by the entire international community: 1) Accept in principle Israel's right to exist, or if you will, accept the right of a member state of the UN to exist. 2) Adhere to all negotiated and signed agreements between the Palestinian leadership and Israel, or if you will adhere to the very basic component in any relationship, including international relationship. 3) Cease all acts of terror and violence against Israel and Israelis, or if you will adhere to one of the first agareements between the Palestinian leadership and Israel that all disagreements and disputes will be resolved peacefully. If Hamas can not meet these three demands which are the the very core of proper international relationship and continues to call for and act upon the elimination of the Jewish state and its Jewish citizens, Hamas simply can not have a place by the international table.