And that naturally please the congress so Tunisia can go on with its human rights violations with no pressure and Turkey can go on with its Kurdish policy with the blessing to join the EU. Where is Palestine in all of this? It doesn't exist. Shame on such corrupt regimes.

This report is so ludicrous. Imagine the gall of the Tunisian minister stating that they invited ! Israel to the science summit. Earth to the Arabs - without Israel's input, there is NO science to report on. As far as I am concerned, why does Israel need to share any scientific advancements with such hostile enemies in the first place??

Israel wants relations with arabs to service there needs and arabic countries like tunis wants relations with israel to do the same , helping the palestinians is just an excuse they are making to go ahead with there relations , we dont need there help in that way what soo ever . actually sharoon would be more understanding and caring about palestinians more than most of arab leaders , they dont care about there own people so we are no beter to them , if israel withdrow from west bank and jerusalem we can have 100 times beter relations with them than most of arabic countries , and then we are even ready to fight with israel against any arabic or islamic country that could harm israel .

Hey sami from Nablus, that is a nice thought that one day palestianians and israelis can fight along side each other............... i just woke up from my dreak, Sami the palestinian people in general have a problem, this problem is the lack of value for life.

Sharon really understands the Palestinians' problems and needs. He knows that it is in Israel's interest not only to let them have a state of their own, but to make sure this state will become working and prosperous. The opposite is recipte for a disaster. Unfortunately, the Palestinians missed a golden opportunity in this respect. In August 2000, the Israeli PM, Ehud Barak, offered Yasir Arafat a state on 97% of the territories, plus half of Jerusalem as its capital. The answer was a fierce Intifada (uprising). Today, the area enters an era of test for the Palestinians. They have to make the choice between the realistic leadership of Abu Mazen, and the fundementalist leadership of Hamas, which is funded and inspired by the terror regimes of Iran and Syria, whose interest do not necessarilly go together with the Palestinians'. In my estimation, if Sharon is re-elected as Israel's PM, he will continue the process of unilateral disengagement from the territories. We can only hope that by this time, he can find a Palestinian leadership which will see the two states solution as a permenant vision, and not a temporary on.

Syria is a major problem for everyone in the region, and its M.O. is always the same. Everyone knows that Syria is behind the bombings in Lebanon. Everyone knows that Syria has bankrolled PKK terrorists in Turkey. Everyone knows that Syria orders terror groups like Islamic Jihad and Hamas to attack Israeli citizens. Everyone knows that Syria is a major factor behind the terror campaign in Iraq that is killing tens of civilians every day and attempting to destabilize and ruin the country. And the katyusha attack launched from Jordan used Hizb'allah's favorite weapons, and involved Syrian and Iraqi terrorists. Syria has carried out terrorist campaigns against every single country with which it shares a border, and this says clearly that Israel is not the problem in the region; but Syria IS a very big problem. The dirty fingerprints of the Syrian junta are evident in death and ruin occurring in every country in the region. When will Syria be declared a "threat to peace in the region? When will its terror-ocracy be removed from everyone else's list of dangers and irritants?