We're willing to hold out our version of an olive branch.

Hold out the olive branch

You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always open to let the enemy back down, get off the limb, become reassimilated.

European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush's olive branch.

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,