Peres: End conflict in order to help Arab democratization

President Shimon Peres currently in London said Israel "must take advantage of this window of opprutonity and end the conflict with Palestinians" so as to help the democratization wave sweeping the Arab countries in the Middle East.

Peres added that the conflict "is only an excuse used by Israel's objectors pretending to be fighting for Palestinians but who are in fact only fighting for themselves." He estimated that "the gaps created between the two sides are mostly physiological and less territorial. (Hagit Klaiman)