American leadership is probably the key to reviving international engagement and getting both parties to come back seriously into the peace process to bring it into its implementation phase.

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Mahmoud Abbas and his predecessor Yasser Arafat always viewed the US obsession with getting the Arabs and Israel to sign peace treaties as a strategic asset.

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He carries no new initiative or plan and if he was to refer to the two-state solution, he would still avoid getting involved in the peace process, knowing that Netanyahu's government isn't ready and does not wish to reach a settlement.

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The Bottom line: Billions can buy many amenities and trophies, the necessary conditions to getting a good life, but they cannot buy peace of mind, sanity, and friendship, the sufficient conditions for maintaining a good life.

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In Sri Lanka, the ceasefire between the government and Tamil rebels and ensuing peace talks allowed journalists to operate more freely, especially in getting access to previously closed areas controlled by the rebels.

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In accepting that in this dispute the United States alone has the heft to deliver peace, and that European intervention runs the risk of merely getting in the way, Mr Blair showed a proper modesty.

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The man who is almost certainly going to be the next US secretary of state has given a broad hint that getting another round of Middle East peace talks going will be one of his top priorities.

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