Mitchell dispatched to Israel to save the Mideast "process"
source: http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/mitchell-dispatched-to-israel-to-save-the...
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This dancing around the issue of the peace negotiations is incomprehensible to me.
Didn't we just go through an entire series of talks between the parties concerned, first with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then with President Obama, then with Abbas and Netanyahu with the U.S., Jordan and Saudi Arabia looking on? What on earth could be said that hasn't already been said? It is clear from the outcome of the speeches and the meetings during and after the UN General Assembly that all parties except one recommended an extension of the moratorium on settlement building. Are we together so far?
Yesterday, I heard Israeli foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman trying to express in English the position that for the period of the construction moratorium, the Palestinians "wasted time". I am not sure I understood what he meant by that. Avigdor Lieberman, in fact, represents the faction referenced to by former President Clinton, who so astutely remarked a few days ago, that Israel's Russian immigrant population is an obstacle to the Middle East peace process.
Didn't we just go through an entire series of talks between the parties concerned, first with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then with President Obama, then with Abbas and Netanyahu with the U.S., Jordan and Saudi Arabia looking on? What on earth could be said that hasn't already been said? It is clear from the outcome of the speeches and the meetings during and after the UN General Assembly that all parties except one recommended an extension of the moratorium on settlement building. Are we together so far?
Yesterday, I heard Israeli foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman trying to express in English the position that for the period of the construction moratorium, the Palestinians "wasted time". I am not sure I understood what he meant by that. Avigdor Lieberman, in fact, represents the faction referenced to by former President Clinton, who so astutely remarked a few days ago, that Israel's Russian immigrant population is an obstacle to the Middle East peace process.
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freecrack
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cuz the sad reality is those talks are more show than substance.
as always every inch of peace comes from back channel talks - 1 year ago
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