LaRouche sobre la contribución útil de Olmert en la cumbre de Annapolis

November 29, 2007 (LPAC)--The Annapolis summit on the South-West Asia peace process "was a big success for us," commented Lyndon LaRouche upon being briefed about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's interview with Israel's daily Ha'aretz today. It was "a big success for us, not because we caused it, but because we strongly supported it happening. It's not a home run. Don't look for decisive home runs, but, rather, movement of the agenda in the right direction. Stick to this agenda, and something will be accomplished. Olmert is useful to that end," LaRouche added.

Olmert told Ha'aretz at the end of the Annapolis conference that the creation of a Palestinian state is a vital Israeli interest. "If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished," he stated.

The Annapolis conference, said Olmert, "met more than we could have defined as the Israeli expectations, but that will not absolve us of the difficulties there will be in the negotiations, which will be difficult, complex," but "we now have a partner," in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.