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As it was expected, Israel has rejected the latest Middle East Peace Plan forwarded by Spain, France and Italy. The latest plan mooted by the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and increased international intervention in the Israel-Palestine fresh conflict. Israel rejected the plan even without taking it seriously on the ground that the plan was not coordinated with EU or Israel.

The fate of the ambitious plan was destined to be thrown in air since Israel cannot favor these plans involving greater international intervention as it always opposed this kind of intervention in the past since long. Further, the countries who have proposed the plan cannot win trust of Israeli government as it thinks that these nations may adopt a soft approach towards Islamic nations.

Moreover, the proposed plan itself has not the backing of UK and Germany at the moment, which Spanish prime minister thinks he would be able to garner in the coming EU summit.

Besides a call for immediate ceasefire and the formation of a Palestinian unity government, the plan also include exchange of prisoners, talks between Israel’s prime minister and Palestinian Authority president and an international mission in Gaza to monitor a ceasefire.

The Israeli government is almost unlikely to favor any plan from any quarter which does not include the U.S. is quite clear as it is written on the wall. On the other hand, a senior Palestinian negotiator has hinted that George Bush has earlier specified the end game as a two-state solution.

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