(Ha'aretz) Alona Ferber and Elka Looks - The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, speaking Monday at an international conference on Economic Regional Cooperation in Tel Aviv, urged Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table. "While reaching peace will not ensure stability by any means, the lack of peace will decrease stability dangerously," Shapiro warned. Shapiro lauded Israel for its "strong history of reaching beyond its immediate neighborhood," adding that "as the region's oldest and most established democracy in the region, Israel upholds the values that the protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria are pushing for."
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