I gave an interview with Scott Fuller on The Scott Fuller Show this evening. The topic was the Israeli/Palestinian peace prospects.

-Chris Jones

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Aaron Klein over at WorldNetDaily is reporting that President Bush told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a private meeting today, that the U.S. will ensure the Palestinians will have a state on the ground before he leaves office in 2008.

“Bush and the U.S. administration gave us a commitment there will be a Palestinian state before he leaves office, and not just an outline of a state on paper but contiguous territory on the ground,” said the Palestinian negotiator, who spoke on condition his name be withheld because he was revealing the contents of a private meeting.

Bush met separately today with Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ahead of tomorrow’s U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit which is expected to yield a framework for a separate Palestinian state.

Another interesting tidbit from this conference is that in exchange for Saudi Arabia attending the Annapolis conference, the Israeli government agreed to recognize the importance of a Saudi-sponsored “peace initiative” in which the Jewish state is called upon to evacuate the strategic Golan Heights, the entire West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

Allow me to translate the above tidbit for you:

In exchange for Saudi Arabia attending the Annapolis conference, the Israeli government agreed to recognize the importance of a Saudi-sponsored “peace initiative” in which the Jewish state is called upon to give the Golan Heights back to Syria, and turn the rest of Israel over to the Palestinians.

That sounds like the greatest deal in history, provided your not a Jew. I guess that pretty much throws the whole “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” thing right out the window.

The Jewish people would be expected to give up the Temple Mount which is the holiest site in Judaism. Nobody thinks twice about asking Jews to give up THE HOLIEST SITE IN ALL OF JUDAISM. Can you imagine the response by Muslims if there was talk about surrendering Mecca?

The entire Muslim world would unite into a big, fiery, ball of Islamic rage that would engulf all of mankind. The ACLU would practically breathe fire if such a thing were ever suggested.

Allahu Akbar, الله أكبر

-Chris Jones

The Bush administration was able to declare victory when Syria, the last Arab world holdout, said Sunday it would attend this week’s high-stakes Mideast peace conference.

League members grudgingly agreed a few days ago to send their foreign ministers to the conference, meant to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a violent, seven-year lull in negotiations. Most members do not have ties with the Jewish state.

Syria had threatened to skip the three-day meetings in Annapolis, Md., and Washington, if they did not address the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed. But with that issue added to the agenda, the deputy foreign minister, Faysal Mekdad, will participate.

Arab states had been reluctant to attend the gathering, which starts Monday in Washington. They feared it would give Israel a public- relations boost while yielding little political benefit for the Palestinians.

But they decided to come to the first large-scale Arab-Israeli gathering since a 1996 meeting in Egypt. That is largely because they wanted to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and keep him from making damaging concessions to Israel in talks that are to follow the conference.

Abbas has been badly weakened by the Islamic Hamas group’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June, which left him in control of just the West Bank.