The Middle East Quartet urged Israel and the Palestinians to come to an agreement by September, citing Egyptian unrest as a factor.
The diplomatic Quartet — made up of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States — issued a statement Feb. 5 following a meeting of high-level representatives in Munich.
In its statement, the Quartet “emphasized the need for the parties and others concerned to undertake urgently the efforts to expedite Israeli-Palestinian and comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, which is imperative to avoiding outcomes detrimental to the region.”
The statement also said it “regrets” Israel’s decision not to renew its 10-month moratorium on building in West Bank settlements. It also condemned rocket fire from Gaza on Israel and “stressed the need for calm and security for both peoples.”
The Quartet in its statement commended Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for his leadership and for “continued Palestinian state-building efforts,” and also welcomed a package of gestures announced the previous day by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Quartet envoy Tony Blair during a meeting in Jerusalem.
The confidence-building measures include allowing new Arab housing projects in eastern Jerusalem; the extension of a PA presence in the West Bank; the building of Palestinian schools and health clinics in the West Bank; the granting of West Bank identity cards to 5,000 Gaza-registered residents of the West Bank.
Also, the approval for construction in Gaza including private homes, desalinization plants and offshore work on the ‘Gaza Marine’ gas field, a PA gas field adjacent to an Israeli one off the coast of Gaza. The measures allow the necessary construction material for the Gaza building.
The Palestinian Authority rejected the measures, with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat saying Feb. 5 that the offer “is just only tricks and procrastination.” Erekat said a cessation of Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem is the only way to build confidence and achieve peace.
Source: JTA
My comment:
The uprising in Egypt, is not caused by 30 years of dictatorship. Not by rising prices of food, and absolutely not because of internal injustice, poverty and unemployment.
The problem in Egypt is all cause by stubborn Jews, who build new schools, synagogues and healthcare centers in the mountains north and South of Jerusalem.
This is the World View, according to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. What a corrupt mind, a spiritual walking disaster zone that has come in flesh.
To hail Mammoud Abbas as a “great leader”, is like hailing Nazi-Germany for building great infrastructure, and solid democratic institutions.
Jesus the Messiah spoke about “bad company”. Paul the Apostles had the following message, to men like Tony Blair:
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Written by Ivar
ivarfjeld.com 
My friend,
I have found your blog most interesting. However, I feel what you describe as the ‘World View’ of what is happening in Egypt (ie the Jews are to blame) is far off the mark. Europe and the US continually turn a blind eye on many policies of the state of Israel and this is understandable because of history, but not right. But for anyone to suggest that the world blames the Jews for everything is far off the mark.
I also feel that Israel is no more democratic than some of the other Middle Eastern countries. A state where one must swear loyalty to a ‘Jewish and democratic state’ no matter what you are- be that a Christian American, or Palestinian Muslim.
Also, I hope that I am misreading your site but it appears that you have neglected much of the Christian message in your focus on the end times. Please do not support the state of Israel so blindly that Jesus’ message of love for ones neighbour, yes even Arabs, is forgotten.
And on a side note, there are roughly 40 million Christians in the Arab world, maybe every so often you will look beyond Israel and see your brothers and sisters elsewhere.
Sunshine,
You wrote: Also, I hope that I am misreading your site but it appears that you have neglected much of the Christian message in your focus on the end times. Please do not support the state of Israel so blindly that Jesus’ message of love for ones neighbour, yes even Arabs, is forgotten.
My Comment: The message on this blog and focus has always been John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
That Israel is an end time focus is true, because of God’s promise.