Israel urged to deal with Palestinians not as old enemies but as free partners. US proposals serve the interests, meet the demands of both Palestinian, Israeli sides. Cultivated area rose from 6.2 million feddans in 1982 to 8 million. Egypt s tolerance, forbearance makes no room for fanaticism, extremism, violence or terrorism. Cairo summit expresses Developing nations position regarding globalization.
Violence erupts to mark Israeli occupation of Palestine.
US Vice President Al Gore to meet Palestinian President Arafat tomorrow. US role to be reconsidered if London meetings prove a failure. President Mubarak urges Israeli treatment of Palestinians as partners. While the US and Britain insist on inflicting the worst kind of punishment on Iraq for having a nuclear weapons program, which has never been put into operation and which has completely been dismantled, the US turns a blind eye to Israel s production of hundreds of nuclear heads, chemical and biological weapons, conventional and non-conventional weapons capable of reaching neighboring countries in the Middle East, in Europe as well as far out in the Cocas and in Iran. Continued refusal by Israel to accede to the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty is bound to create a situation where countries of the region strive, through an arms race, to neutralize Israel s nuclear weapons program.