AP reports: "After months of frantic diplomacy, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared before a conference of some 50 countries and international agencies that they were intent on achieving what has eluded their predecessors for decades: bringing peace to peoples with clashing dreams and conflicting claims to the Holy Land. They set themselves an ambitious deadline - December 2008, before President Bush's term ends."
Comment: This peace conference is not the Covenant With Many of Daniel 9:27, it's simply another in a long line of failed peace bids, yet it's still important because it has expanded the scope of the participants. As the report above notes, 50 countries and international groups were invited to participate in the conference. The quest for Mideast peace has moved far beyond the Israelis and Palestinians, and even beyond the Quartet, to embrace a much larger number of interested parties. So, even as we witness the spectacle of President Bush calling a conference together to issue a statement agreeing to talk about talking about Mideast peace in the future, we can at least find something of prophetic significance to the proceedings. This may not be the covenant, but at least we have defined the many.
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