2 Gaddafi to offer sons plan father out push

The rebels, demanding Colonel Qadhafi, as well as the American and European powers supported so far composed it with air strikes on a more radical break with his 40 years of rule. And it is not clear whether Colonel Qadhafi, 68, has signed supported by his sons, reported proposal Seif and Saadi el-Gaddafi, although close to the sons of the father was ready a person are said make the call.

But the proposal offers a window into the dynamic of the Qadhafi family at a time when the Colonel, who has seven sons, relies heavily on it. He is one of Moussa Koussa from his closest confidants of the resignation of Foreign Minister and isolated by decades attempted coups and internal cleansing, leaning on his sons as trusted advisors and military commanders.

The idea of touch for a long time differences between his sons. While Seif and Saadi turned towards Western-style economic and political openings have, considered to be Colonel Qadhafi sons Khamis and Mutuassim hardliners. Khamis is a fearsome militia concentrated itself on internal unrest suppress.

And Mutuassim, a national security adviser, who was also his own militia, commands as a rival to the Seif in the competition for her father. But Saadi, who has driven by career as a football player, a businessman and an officer, firmly secures the plan, said associate.

The two sons "wants to move to the change for the country" a person close to the camp said without their father, Seif and Saadi Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. "they have with so many brick walls of the old guard meet, and if they have a green light, it will bring the country up quickly." A son, this person said, has often said that "were the wishes of the rebellion of his own."

The proposals are the latest twist in a drama between Seif and his father, who has played for years on the stage of Libyan public life as the son has alternately pushed forward with calls for political reforms and then retired. During the recent revolt, he was in step with his father in swear by the rebels March to eradicate. "We come," he said to a crowd of supporters, singing that "Seif al-Islam step on the rats."

The proposals are also the latest sign that the Qadhafi Government Printing two weeks of allied air strikes can be feeling, which greatly reduced the advantage in equipment of the militia of Qadhafi. A senior official of the Libyan arrived in Athens to discuss a possible solution to the conflict, the Reuters news service reported. And Mohamed Ismail, a top adviser of Seif, is from a trip to London, where, a Libyan official said, he's proposal for Seif to take over, return presented by his father.

Mutuassim because of his long-standing rivalry with Seif be particularly resistant.

After Seif a high-profile trip to Washington to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2008, a WikiLeaks reported cable, the attention paid "exacerbated tension with his brothers and sisters."

As Mutuassim Washington next year, the US Ambassador to Libya wrote visited, are "Mutuassim the desire, Washington this spring visit and meeting with his seemingly overweening focus U.S. Government top officials and signing a number of agreements at least in part by a strong sense of competition with Saif al-Islam driven."

Recently suggested in an interview with the Pan Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, Saadi, that Seif before the revolt had already been "the person.", every day in Libya the Mr Koussa, the former top adviser to Colonel Qadhafi used to run the show the host, last week removed a character as a leader of the old guard Seif of suspicious and had been against a reform.

A diplomat familiar said discussions in which the proposal however was beginning. Despite the evidence of deep inner dissatisfaction, Colonel Qadhafi seems to think that rebellion against him is a foreign conspiracy by Islamist radical and oil hungry Western powers trying to Libya take, said the diplomat. And the rebels, who have established their own provisional Government, continue to insist on the exit of the power of Colonel Qadhafi and his sons.

C. j. Chivers contributed reporting from Brega, Libya.

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Diplomatic memo: in Israel, time for peace offer expired

The Palestinian Authority has built steadily a movement support for such a solution in September, which could place Israel in a diplomatic vise. Israel would land a colleague include United Nations, country has controlled it and let you in a two State solution to keep expected for more than four decades and some of which are occupied.

"We are facing a diplomatic and political tsunami that the majority of the population is unaware of and, the top of in September," said Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister, at a Conference in Tel Aviv last month. "It is a very dangerous situation, an action is required." He added: "rhetoric, paralysis, inaction will deepen the isolation of Israel."

With helper which proposals for the Palestinians is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thrashing President Shimon Peres at the White House due on Tuesday to meet with President Obama and possibilities of the binding. The United States is the process for forward, according to diplomats here move always still uncertain.

Israel's offer is expected that some West Bank territory outside the settlements on Palestinian control transfer contain and may propose a regional component - an International Conference, in response to the Arab League to serve peace initiatives.

But Palestinian leaders, encouraged by support for their statehood bids, the expected offer as inadequate to dismiss and continue to building demand an end of the settlement before talks can begin.

"We want to create pressure on Israel to it feel isolated and understand that it can be no talks without stopover in settlements, help me not", said Nabil Schaath, the the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Fatah, who heads the largest party of the Palestinian Authority. "Without this, our goal of membership in the United Nations is General Assembly in September."

Western Israeli and Palestinian officials to the dead end, most of them interviewed request anonymity, expressed by an unusual degree of pessimism about a peaceful solution. All agree that the turmoil in the Middle East had led opposing responses from Israel and large parts of the world.

The prospect of even more hostile governments than its neighbors, insists on caution and before significant steps see Israel. It will also in extensive create long-term security guarantees in a two State solution, but which inevitably violate the sovereignty of a Palestinian State.

The opposite conclusion tend to draw the international community. Foreign Minister William Hague in the UK, for example, that one of the most important lessons learned from the Arabic source was, that "legitimate wish not be ignored and must be addressed." said last week, He added "It can not in anyone's interest, when the new order in the region at a time when of the minimum hope in the peace process is determined.", referring to the Israeli Palestinian talks,

The Palestinian focus on September is based not only on the fact, the General Assembly then contains its annual meeting. It is announced that his Government would be ready in two years on independent statehood and that Mr Obama last year said in September that he be declared the framework for an independent Palestinian State Prime Minister Fayyad as Salam in September 2009, expected in a year.

Mr Obama does not specify what would be the borders of that State, provided that they would be determined by direct negotiations. But with Israeli Palestinian talks canceled months ago and in the Middle East in the process of profound change, many argue that pressure is required from the outside.

Germany, France, and Great Britain say, that negotiations are based should to the 1967 lines with corresponding land swaps what exactly has rejected Netanyahu's Government, because it says that it determines the result of the total mass.

"Think the world is it that is going to Israel 1967 lines declare force and lack of Jerusalem as a basis for the negotiations?" asked a top of Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This will never happen."

While the Obama in 1967 as a basis for talks described administration in the past on the lines, it has the United Nations and Russia decided again not whether the European Union - the other members of the so-called Quartet - in this starting point to declare, said diplomats. The Quartet meets in Berlin on 15 April.

Israel, the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the West has put into Bank and East Jerusalem, admits that it to withdraw from the large tract of land, which now it will have taken it. But it hopes the major settlement blocks and much of East Jerusalem, as well as the border in the East with Jordan record and wants to enter in talks with the other side of position as a starting point.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was ahead of its closest allies in the Arab world, by the power driven, helps fuel protest movements elsewhere in the now roil, including Jordan, which has its own peace agreement with Israel.

"We presented, are grounded in security arrangements, because of the what is regional,", said Zalman Shoval, one of the few Netanyahu aides drafting of the Israeli proposal, which can be delivered as a speech at the Congress of the United States in May. "We are facing as Iran grows strongly the rebirth of the eastern front." We need to back up the Jordan Valley. "And no Israeli Government will quickly move tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes."

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