To: Zeev Hed who wrote (16154 ) 5/19/2001 10:14:12 PM From: gancho Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 30051 zeev i just found this artilce. thats why isay the conflict hurts the stockmarket are the Jews were interested inmaking money now the arabs are cuting relaition to Israel. Arab League ministers urge suspending political contact with Israel CAIRO, Egypt-- Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, Egypt, have recommended that the group's member nations suspend political contact with Israel as long as "aggression and occupation" continues. The nine ministers, in a communiqu?, announced Saturday they had recommended all Arab countries halt political contact with Israel. The recommendation is not binding to the league's 22 members. It is up to each individual country to decide what to do. The recommendation represents a significant step in the Arab position. Earlier, ministers had recommended that contacts be frozen, but an exception had been made for those Arab countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania. Saturday's call makes no such exception, and the move was endorsed by those nations' ministers. Raanan Gissin, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, responded to the announcement: "OK, let's say they sever relations," he told CNN. "And then what? And then what? "The Arab countries ought to be working to convince Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to halt the violence and restart the negotiations," Gissin said. "They're giving [the Palestinians an] incentive to continue with this kind of horrendous attacks," he said. "We're trying to exercise restraint as much as possible, offering an open hand for peace. What we get in return is not just a cold shoulder, but a deliberate intent to intensify the violence." Saturday's Arab League recommendation came the same day that at least two Palestinians were killed, according to Palestinian sources. A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Nablus after a funeral procession for 11 Palestinians killed Friday in Israeli air strikes, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. A Palestinian policeman was shot and killed in Jenin early Saturday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The air strikes came after a Palestinian suicide bombing killed five Israelis -- as well as the bomber -- and left 100 wounded at a shopping mall in Netanya on Friday.