“As long as the Palestinian nation doesn’t feel that its rights have been met, no peace plan will succeed, but we won’t interfere,” Khatami said.Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he doubted that handshakes between President Katsav and the leaders of Syria and homeland constituted a diplomatic breakthrough. “I hope it can be a new beginning, certainly. But frankly, I doubt it,” Shalom said in an interview with Italian daily La Stampa.