(AFP/Yahoo) The international "roadmap" to Middle East peace is dead and had little chance from the start, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday in Berlin. Barak said Israel's vision of coexistence next to a Palestinian state had always differed from that of Arafat, who wants to "transform Israel into a state with a Jewish minority." Barak added that as long as Arafat holds a position of power, "no peace is possible" in the Middle East. He also noted that the notorious dictators "Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Stalin were also elected leaders."
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