While certain Arab countries are preparing to attend the Middle East peace scheduled for November, the countries on the front line in the struggle against Israel are saying they doubt the conference will produce any positive results.

Palestine, the alleged focus of the Arab-Israeli peace talks, is experiencing very difficult times.
With the Zionist army’s intensified assaults on unarmed civilians in Gaza and over 50,000 Palestinian fighters on alert to respond to Israeli attacks, the future of Palestine looks bleak.
The escalation of the conflict between the Fatah movement, led by Mahmoud Abbas, and the Hamas movement, led by Ismail Haniya, has divided Palestine into two rival blocs, which is one of the goals the Zionist regime has always pursued.
Israel is making efforts to intensify the conflict in order to weaken the Hamas Islamic resistance movement and to bring about the physical and political elimination of Hamas at the hands of its rival, Fatah, with the long-term goal of removing from the scene all of Palestine’s dedicated Islamic-nationalist leaders in the political and military spheres.
Israel and the Fatah movement have imposed an economic embargo on Gaza, and this has divided Palestinian society into supporters and opponents of the Palestinian Authority. If it were not for the Hamas leaders’ vigilance and patience, a full-scale civil war would have already broken out in Palestine.
In such an atmosphere, the participation of Palestinians in the Middle East peace conference will not lead to the desired results.
History has shown that every decision that would secure the Palestinians’ inalienable rights is always rejected by Israel. In addition, there is never any mechanism to enforce decisions made at such conferences.
In the 1993 Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians, it was agreed that Palestine would become an independent state in 2005, but the Zionist regime still refused to implement this article of the accord and a few others.
Clearly, Israel will never give any concessions to the Arabs as long as the momentum of events in the region is not in favor of Arab countries.
Meanwhile, Syria has recently announced that it will not attend the Middle East conference if the occupation of the Golan Heights is not on the agenda.
The Syrian leadership has also criticized international organizations, including the United Nations, for their silence in regard to the recent escalation of violence, saying it tacitly gives Israel a green light to continue its aggression against regional Arab countries.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has warned about Israel’s continued expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, adding that lasting peace can never be established in the region as long as excavations in the environs of the Al-Aqsa Mosque continue.
Other Arab countries that have announced their intention to attend the conference only have secondary roles in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
When important players like Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria are skeptical about the prospects for the conference, the participation of other Arab countries will not have much effect on the Middle East peace process.
In light of the fact that Israel has refused to implement over 180 UN Security Council resolutions about the situation in Palestine, it can be predicted that the Zionist regime will most likely refuse to accept the decisions made at the upcoming peace conference.
Israel wants to establish diplomatic relations with Arab countries without giving them any concessions, and that is the real reason it is so keen to attend this so-called peace conference.
And the U.S. neocons want to use the Middle East peace conference as a propaganda tool for the 2008 presidential election campaign.
With all of the participants seeking their own interests, at the expense of the Palestinians, it seems that the front line Arab states’ skepticism about the conference is justified