The United States has officially extended invitations for holding the international peace conference on November 27 in the city of Annapolis. President Hosni Mubarak is exerting much effort to unify all the Arabs before going to Annapolis conference. This conference must be a forward step in resuming peace registrations to reach a joint Palestinian - Israeli understanding concerning establishing two separate States.

President Mubarak expressed hope that the proposed Annapolis conference on Mideast peace would be successful.

The main problem now is that we can not solve the Palestinian problem without reaching a national reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions; Fatah and Hamas. We must first finish this abnormal situation in Gaza and the West bank.

Al Akhbar

November 22, 2007