Letter to Raye - IMO - this is the serious breakdown in the PLO/Israeli talks in February, 2000 as we predicted over lunch (1) - won't it be something if the PLO declares an independant state on Feb 23/24 - Mahmoud Abbas is killed as prophesized by Nostradamus' "Mabus" quatrain; the Antichrist [i wonder about Ismail Khan as a demand for release by the hijackers of the airliner now in England - as an Antichrist wanna-be???] declares himself on feb 23/24 over a breakdown in Middle East talks as prophesized and as actually done by Osama bin Laden (anti-American fatwas issued on this date, 1998) and Saddam Hussein (anti-American holiday declared on this date, 1998) and by the completion date of the secret Ramboulette Accords (Feb. 23, 1999); and now, all we need is a comet for Nostradamus 2,62:
http://www3.bravenet.com/forum/fetch.php?id=5329691&usernum=3592561183
"Friend of the late Father Malichi Martin on Art Bell claims that according to Prophecy and info from the Vatican's Astronomers etc that Two Comets are heading towards earth one she claims will be "UPON" the earth the other make it like another sun in the sky. She released frightening scenario on Bell tonight. She claims she has good inside sources. Spooky things."
Regardless of the fantastic, Febuary 23/24 still may have meaning for directed prophecy - as an anniversery of sorts of an anti-American voice and, thus, I think security concerns are relevant.
--- Philip
(1)Latest Headlines (AP) Arafat, Barak End Peace Talks The Associated Press Feb 3 2000 10:10AM ET
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli-Palestinian peace summit ended in sharp disagreement today over the scope of a West Bank troop pullback, the U.S. role in the negotiations and a timetable for a final peace treaty.
The two-hour meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, described as tense, made it very unlikely the two sides will meet a Feb. 13 deadline for formulating the outline of a final peace treaty.
The Palestinians said the summit at the Erez military crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip ended in crisis and that Barak proposed postponing the target date by six months. The Israelis played down the differences.
A scheduled joint news conference was canceled.
``It turned into dictation rather than negotiations, it was not in the spirit of the partnership,'' Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, speaking on CNN, said of the summit. ``This damaged the level of trust.''
Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy accused the Palestinians of creating unnecessary delays, but said lower-level negotiations would resume on Sunday, as scheduled.
Levy said Israel did not consider the Feb. 13 deadline ``sacred,'' but would not confirm that the government asked for a delay in the deadline.
Expectations for the Barak-Arafat summit were low from the outset. Top officials have said both sides remain far apart on the issues they need to resolve in a peace treaty - borders, Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, Jewish settlements.
The key sticking point in today's meeting was not a so-called final status issue, though, but rather the scope of a partial Israeli troop withdrawal from 6.1 percent of the West Bank, due next week.
The Palestinians have demanded that Israel hand over populous West Bank suburbs of Jerusalem during the withdrawal. The land being offered by Israel does not contain these areas, according to Jewish settlers who saw the maps Wednesday.
Israel insists that it alone can sketch the withdrawal maps, while the Palestinians maintain they should be given a say. Last year, an interim pullback was held up for seven weeks over the same argument. In the end, Israel agreed to listen to Palestinian demands, but insisted it alone would decide.
``The Israeli side wants to determine this map unilaterally, which is a violation of the previous agreement,'' Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo told reporters in Gaza City.
A third point of contention was the role the United States would play in the talks. The Palestinians seek immediate U.S. intervention, while Israel wants to stick to bilateral talks.
President Clinton sent a mediator, Dennis Ross, to the region this week to measureprogress. He has also offered to host Camp David-style negotiations once the negotiators have made enough progress to ensure that a framework agreement can be reached.
``The Americans have the trust of both sides, but can't replace the sides,'' Levy said.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Haim Ramon said a Camp David-style session was not realistic at this time because of major differences on final status issues.
``With the current situation, going to a summit in the United States when the gaps are still so wide is not the correct thing to do,'' Ramon told Israel radio.
The first four of 10 days of marathon discussions aimed at hammering out a framework agreement yielded little progress. Arafat aide Tayeb Abdel Rahim on Wednesday dismissed Israel's proposal for a final border as ``nonsense.''
Israel's proposal would leave Israel with territory captured in the 1967 Mideast War. The Palestinians insist that Israel withdraw from all of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
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