Israel also has an opportunity to reach a hand out in the interest of peace
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is hosting a one-day conference in Paris, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will seek over $5 billion over the next three years from mostly Arab states to stave off economic collapse. Whether Israel will ease travel restrictions in Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the Annapolis talks remains to be seen.