Two prominent Likud members of the Knesset, Ehud Olmert and Dan Meridor, are “considering” invitations from former president Jimmy Carter to speak for Israel at a high-powered peace seminar in Atlanta, Ga., where a Jordanian minister, Palestinian political figures and Iraqi diplomats will also attend.
The two M.K.s’ names appear in print in a preliminary program issued by the Carter Center of Emory University for the conclave, scheduled for mid-November. Other participants include Adnan Abu Oudeh, the minister of the Royal Court in Jordan’s government; Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S. Abdullamir Al-Anbari; Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N. Ismat Kittani: East Jerusalem editor Hanna Siniora; Egyptian presidential aide Osama El-Baz; and ranking Soviet and Chinese officials.
The official designation of the two-day event is a “consultation.”
Israeli Labor Party sources said that Knesset member Abba Eban and former diplomat Gideon Rafael are also invited to the consultation. Their name, however, do not appear in the program.
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