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Israel/Palestine talks resume
After a long silence, peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine will take place this week in an effort to find a solution to the long-felt conflict between the two states.
Robert Danin, a former deputy to ex- British Prime Minister Tony Blair who is now working with the Council on Foreign Relations, said during a conference call Monday that President Barack Obama has been in talks with the leaders for more than 18 months.
“(Israel and Palestine) have essentially joined this process because they don’t want to be blamed for its failure,” Danin said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will head to Washington to meet with Obama individually Wednesday, followed by a dinner at the White House.
The dinner will include Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Tony Blair, who is serving as the Middle East envoy for the commonly known quartet of the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will then begin negotiations with the parties the following day at the State Department. Obama has been criticized for not conducting the negotiations, but Danin said Obama distancing himself from early-stage peace talks allows the president room to influence the conversation if it comes to a stalemate.
“The president has put his own prestige on the line, both by at the very beginning of the administration identifying this issue as a priority, by continuing to engage by hosting the two leaders at the United Nations last September and by now calling this summit,” Danin said. “He is keeping some capital in reserve for later on.”
Obama has been ridiculed for engaging so closely with the conflict, especially after last summer when the president met with both leaders in many one-on-one conversations and phone calls. Danin said there is not an agreed-upon agenda for the talk.
One of the main projected issues for the agenda is the looming Sept. 26 expiration date of Israel’s 10-month moratorium on construction in the West Bank. Nethanyahu has said that he will not renew the moratorium. However, President Abbas has assured all parties Palestine would leave negotiations if this proves false.
“The most serious challenge for the negotiators and for the administration is the question of how the settlement moratorium will be handled,” Danin said. “One of the reasons that the administration wanted the negotiations to start now is that it will be easier to have the settlement question addressed within the context of a negotiation process than outside of one.”
Danin said it’s possible that a passive agreement could be reached where no official announcement is made regarding the moratorium, but each party would reach an understanding in order to continue discussions. The White House has announced a one-year end goal for the negotiations.
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Lynn Provencio
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Small correction towards the end. Abbas said he would leave the talks if the moratorium on construction permits for Jews ends, not if it continues.
Of course the talks are a show, and pretty much meaningless as far as negotiations are concerned.
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The point is to maneuver Israel into a corner so that Netanyahu agrees to giving up critical territory to a hostile entity, in this case the combined forces of Fatah, PLO, Hamas and their friends, patrons and subsidiaries. The fact that Prime Ministers of Israel have no authority to do that doesn’t matter. It has nothing to do with international law, justice or democracy.
The “talks” are the delicate and not so delicate threats used mainly against Israel, and sometimes against Abbas, to try to maneuver the parties into doing the will of Obama, the state department, the Quartet, et al, no matter the disastrous results for either Israel or the Arabs under PA and Hamas rule.
It’s nothing to cheer about unless you hate both groups. Israel will be forced into suicidal boundaries and attacked again, and the Arabs will be used, abused and brainwashed even more by their fearless leaders.
Eugene
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I agree with Provencio that the talks are a “show and pretty much meaningless as far as negotiations are concerned.” But I disagree as to the reasons stated.
This latest, umpteenth attempt at negotiating a peace between Israel and the Palestian will fail, as all the others have because:
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Israel will not negotiate seriously, in good faith, because they don’t have to. They have the United States behind them, which will continue to give them $billions in aid every year, continue to back them on the UN Security Council no matter what the IDF does, and will not force them to truly negotiate.
Phillip Howel
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EUGENE, any concession made will be by Israel. Lets you and I negotiate about your home. I demand the right to sleep in your best bed. Because you will not agree, I infest your bed with bed bugs to show you there is a price you will pay if you do not give in to me. You know I have a box of bed bugs ready to infest your kids beds, hurting them with their bites. DDT dumped on me and my bugs will solve the problem—-BUT you are not allowed to do that. Your family has been hurt by my bombing, but you are the bad guy if you retaliate.
So, you decide to allow me to use the kitchen and leave the mess for your family to clean up. After a while I come back with roaches and leave them in the kitchen with the mess. And I tell you I will not do that again if you will let me sleep on your couch and my kids will sleep on the floor. DDT would solve the problem, but….
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Before long your kids must share their toys and games with my kids…. you do not want bed bugs or roaches or maybe mice…
EUGENE you know the problem Israel has is people of no decency or honor bugging them. Give up your bed to some of those people and then tell Israel what a great idea it is.
Lynn Provencio
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In honor of “peace negotiations”, 4 Jews were murdered by Arabs today, as they drove on Hwy 60 in Israel, which had been recently opened to Arab traffic in the name of appeasement. The Arabs waited in ambush and shot up the car with automatic weapons, and then pulled the people, including a young pregnant woman out onto the road and shot them at close range to make sure they died. This is a direct result of the official Arab goal of killing Jews and destroying the nation of Israel. The unreformed terrorist Abu Mazen, the Arab peace partner, who orders Arab children to be taught to do these things, said it was a bad move for the PA tactically, at this point in time. Netanyahu will continue to negotiate with him about giving up more land to his regime so that it may more easily attain its genocidal goals while collecting billions of dollars and euros. Why will Netanyahu stick around? So that the US will continue to be “friendly”.
obama bin farteen
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good grief. Arguing with ugene is like talking to a wall, except a wall at least will listen. Schmuck
Eugene
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Lynn leaves out the fact that these were Jewish settlers on the West Bank, Isreal’s illegal occupied territories.
So Eugene, you
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are legitimizing their murder? They were there illegally?
Okay, I like that logic so will you legitimize the killing of illegals that are here in the U.S.?
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Or, since “we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us,” we are the illegals and therefore we could be shot right?
The West Bank and the American Southwest are somewhat alike then.
Bostom
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The current Washington negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians will be fruitless, for a very basic reason. The Arab and non-Arab Muslim umma, or global community, vehemently denies pre-Islamic Jewish, and ignores pre-Islamic Christian connections to all the territories that comprised historical Syro-Palestine — including Judea, Samaria, modern Israel within the 1949 armistice borders, and Gaza.
This historical negationism is melded to Islam’s own theological supresessionism which abrogates Judaism and Christianity as deliberately corrupted, crude manifestations of the one true primordial monotheism, Islam.
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“No; Abraham in truth was not a Jew, neither a Christian; but he was a Muslim and one pure of faith [i.e., Islam]; certainly he was never of the idolaters.” Koran 3:67
Such an eternal religio-political worldview should raise grave doubts about the prospects of negotiating a permanent peace settlement between the Israelis and the local Arab Muslim representatives of the global Islamic umma, the Palestinian Arabs.
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