Israeli report proposes secret link with Libya
Libya-Israel, Politics, 6/24/2005

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Thursday issued excerpts from a secret report for the Israeli foreign ministry demanding allowing the available opportunity for establishing relations with Libya.

The report indicated that Israel has to invest the window of opened opportunities before it, and to take successful steps to crystallize official relations with Libya. In this regard, the report proposes to establish secret academic contacts channel to this effect.

The secret report which was prepared by the political planning department at the Israeli foreign ministry tried to diagnose the change that recently occurred in the Libyan foreign ministry. It considered that Israel occupied an advanced position in this change and that the son of the Libyan leader Seif al-Islam said recently "I can not be a Palestinian more that the Palestinians themselves." Israel had read that as a call to establish links, after the Palestinians started to negotiate with Israel and establish relations with it.

The report also disclosed that the Libyan ambassador in one Arab state showed interest to make a dialogue with non- official Israeli side to debate the proposal made by President al-Qathafi to establish an Israeli- Palestinian state.

The "Jon Afrique Intelligence" magazine which is issued in Mauritania reported that the new Libyan ambassador in Nouakchott seeks to establish secret contacts with his Israeli counterpart Buez Basmout, in preparations for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.

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