re peace talks in article bf f news service uci edu tclock orion oac uci edu tim clock writes in article may nysernet org astein nysernet org alan stein writes it seems that to keep the peace talks going israel has to keep making goodwill gesture after goodwill gesture while palestinian arabs continue to go around hunting jews you know that putting something like this out on the newsgroup is only going to generate flames not discussion try adding some substance to the issue of gestures you mentioned what is it you feel that israel has offered as a gesture what would you realistically expect to see presented by the arabs palestinians in the way of gesture timbo israel has not been recognized as a state by the arabs except for egypt of course isn t that a gesture what has israel offered well it has been calling for peace talks for years asked for economic relations and asked for diplomatic ties what else is there would you have israel sacrifice its security nay i think not peace pete
