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Since many years, we defend here an idea which is not very original, though disputed all the same by some: the israélo-Palestinian conflict is not a regional conflict like another. Its importance is measured neither on the surface of the disputed territories, neither with the socio-economic weight of its protagonists, nor even with the number of its victims. Ilest for us others, French, or European, or Western, a central conflict which poisons our companies. Etc' is little to say that it represents for the world arabo-Moslem a kind of flat-topped outlier of the relations with the Occident. If our media cover it and perhaps surcouvrent it, each one with its sensitivity, it thus has nothing abnormal there. Any event which occurs on the side of Jerusalem, Ramallah or Gaza, Tel-Aviv or even of Beirut determines a little the mood of the world. Thus, once more, the images of the carnage of Beit Hanoun upset the opinion under all the latitudes. Nineteen died in this village of the north of the Gaza Strip, destroyed by Israeli missiles. A whole decimated family... It is to be howled. As is to be howled when a human bomb strikes civil Israelis, in a bus or a restaurant. Àcette difference close it is on a side a modern State, abrasive of the most sophisticated weapons, which strikes with a cold determination; and other, individuals or groups carried by the rage and despair. On a side, it is the State and reason of State, which does not want, at the bottom, to yield an inch of its colonial project; and other, it is the insanity which results from a feeling of impotence. But to the insupportable images of Beit Hanoun was added a political fact which worsens the significance of it. It acts of course of the American veto opposite Sunday with the Security Council of UNO to an Arab resolution condemning the massacre (and drawn Palestinian rockets on Sderot). In its injustice narquoise, this veto is morally as terrible as the massacre itself. It defends the absolute not-right once more. When it is known that this conflict is carried out permanently under the eyes of the whole world, and that many forges their morals there, one measures the damage which such a political act can cause. Despair from New York, where seat UNO. The hope thus comes besides. It comes initially from the revival of the inter-Palestinian negotiation aiming at constituting a government of national union, mixing representatives with Hamas, of the Fatah and personalities of the civil company. One remembers that this negotiation was about to lead to last June when the removal of an Israeli soldier and laviolente repression which followed blocked the process. Remain to know if Israel would agree to discuss with such a government, or if other quibbles would be advanced to once more reject the possibility of a dialogue. In parallel, the hope also comes from the Arab League. What is rather rare if one considers the historical obliteration of the Arab capitals in this conflict. For once, a proposal spouted out of a meeting convened in urgency Sunday in Cairo. The countries of the League are agreed to pour funds bound for the Palestinian Authority and to thus try to break the economic blockade imposed by Israel. The same ones planned to start again the Saoudi initiative of 2002: a total and final normalization of the relations between the Arab world and Israel in exchange of a withdrawal of the territories occupied since 1967. Four years ago, Israel had swept of a reverse of hand this offer of total peace. The Saoudi Minister for the Foreign Affairs has this time suggested that this plan is discussed during an international conference in which would take part Israéliens and Palestinians. Thus putting each one vis-a-vis at its responsibilities. Hamas included/understood. Seen from here, one can only be authorized this interrogation: isn't it paradoxical that the offer of peace comes from the feudalism of Riyadh, and not of one or several large Western capitals? The things a little also move in Washington. The demolished cuisante of Bush to the elections with the Congress, le7 November, and the Iraqi crisis start to make audible of other voices. For a certain time already, the old man James Baker, former owner of the American diplomacy under George Bush father, and promoter in 1991 of the conference of Madrid, militates in favour of a dialogue with Iran and Syria. It would be obviously the end of "the axis of the Evil", expensive with the Bush little boy. Still it for that would be necessary that the dialogue is open without conditions. It would also be necessary that it israélo-Palestinian conflict is recognized. Baker wants to discuss well with Iranian president Ahmadinejad, but not with Hamas. What at the bottom is hardly astonishing. To recognize the Palestinian direction for what it is, it is to start to consider a solution with this conflict (1). And it is to take the risk to be quickly overhanging with Israel. What remains unthinkable today still among Democrats as at the Republicans. Denis Sieffert in Politis Link 1 Lire excels it article of Hind Khoury: Jerusalem-est, symbol of impunity in the World