Oman’s foreign minister calls for an emergency peace conference
Hamas, Hizbullah and the Houthis are too deeply rooted in their communities to be excluded, argues Badr Albusaidi
OMAN IS CALLING for an emergency international conference on Palestine, an initiative to match that of President George H.W. Bush when he convened the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991. Madrid set off a series of multilateral negotiations aimed at ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, which made substantial progress but were then, tragically, interrupted. We must try again.
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