Peace Conference, Annapolis

WASHINGTON - Just 24 hours after securing an agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders to resume long-stalled peace talks, President Bush invited the pair to the White House to ceremonially inaugurate the first formal, direct negotiations in seven years. Bush planned to meet separately with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and finally to get them together for an afternoon session and declaring the talks formally under the wayاhttp://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?

Sixty years after occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel several "Peace Conferences" had been held in Madrid, Oslo, Camp David and other places in an effort to solve the problem and they have all turned out to be failure.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has always played an active role in Palestine problem and has declared that the issue of Palestine is the one of the most important issues of all Islamic nations. Tehran has proposed referendum with participation of all Palestinians including Muslims, Christians and Jews to decide their own destiny. Iranian leaders also believe that security of the Middle East region should be decided within the region and not by pro-Israel Europeans and Americans. So Iranians have declared that Annapolis conference is not representing the Palestinians and is moving against their rights. While both Palestinians and Israelis are looking for a solution to the problem but a majority of them are also suspicious that the peace conference will bear any fruit.
On the other hand Americans believe that the conference is welcomed by many Sunni Arabs Muslims because they prefer Americans interference to stop the rising regional influence of Iran and Islamic radicalism. So every body at Annapolis has one common goal to provide a relative protection against Iranian increasing influence in the region.