Speaking to US branch of the ultra-left marginals, Syrian ambassador proposed direct talks with Israel. Assad repeatedly refused such talks. In fact, there is nothing much to talk about: Syria all but abandoned hope for the Golan Heights before the successive Israeli governments since Rabin stirred the issue. There is de facto peace with Syria now even in the absence of a paper treaty; Israeli governments offer the Golan Heights in exchange for just a PR stunt. Syria recognized Jewish thirst for a peace declaration and stepped up its demands, including access to the Lake Kinneret which would allow it water and maritime rights to half the lake. No peace treaty would force Syria to abandon its 800 missiles or convert that ancient enemy of Israel into a friend.

to sign a peace deal with Palestinians before the end of Bush term. In August, Rice the Black Death summons Livni and Fatah negotiator Qurei to Washington to draft an outline of Israeli capitulation to Arab terrorists.
Livni praised her efforts in the destruction of Gush Katif because in return she got a non-binding letter from Bush which rejected the Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Now Livni and Bush only have to convince Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah al Islam, Fatah, Hamas, Popular Resistance Committees, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine and a dozen smaller outfits that Palestinian rfugees indeed lack such right.

Talansky, other Jewish renegades claimed damages from Israeli Aerospace Industries for refusing to rent a spy satellite to Venezuela.
Talansky owns a stake in ImageSat, an Israeli satellite company.

over the plan to move them out of the illegal villages. The Ministry for Development of the Galilee and Negev advanced the plan which compensates the Bedouin even though they squattered on the state’s land. 80,000 Bedouin in dozens of overgrown villages stake the Negev which became an Arab territory just as Galilee.
Bedouin generally hate settled Arabs and therefore collaborate with Jews. Israeli government is bent on resettling Bedouin in towns even though destruction of their aboriginal lifestyle transforms them into common Arabs who hate Israel just as the other Palestinians do.