U.S. to present Isreali peace plan soon
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5733NQ20090804
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday the United States would present a Middle East peace plan within weeks and Israel should accept it.
"In the coming weeks, their plan will be formulated and presented to the parties," Barak said, according to a spokesman for Israel's parliament who briefed reporters on the defense chief's remarks to its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
"I believe that Israel must take the lead in accepting the plan," Barak was quoted as saying.
Barak has held a series of meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, on Washington's demand for a Jewish settlement freeze that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been resisting.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded a halt to settlement activity, as stipulated by a U.S.-backed 2003 peace "road map," before negotiations suspended since Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip last December can resume.
Israeli media have speculated the Obama administration would put forward new peace proposals to try to break the stalemate reached in talks Israel and the Palestinians launched at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland in November 2007.
Asked at a daily briefing in Washington on Monday when a peace plan might be announced by Mitchell, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said: "I think it will be in a matter of weeks."
He gave no specifics.
"In the coming weeks, their plan will be formulated and presented to the parties," Barak said, according to a spokesman for Israel's parliament who briefed reporters on the defense chief's remarks to its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
"I believe that Israel must take the lead in accepting the plan," Barak was quoted as saying.
Barak has held a series of meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, on Washington's demand for a Jewish settlement freeze that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been resisting.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded a halt to settlement activity, as stipulated by a U.S.-backed 2003 peace "road map," before negotiations suspended since Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip last December can resume.
Israeli media have speculated the Obama administration would put forward new peace proposals to try to break the stalemate reached in talks Israel and the Palestinians launched at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland in November 2007.
Asked at a daily briefing in Washington on Monday when a peace plan might be announced by Mitchell, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said: "I think it will be in a matter of weeks."
He gave no specifics.
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freecrack
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israel has yet once ever in its history to break a cease fire. israeli citizens dont take military actions into thier own hands(like the palastinians do) despite being trained to do so.
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freecrack
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Bren589
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It will be great as long as Israel will agree to the peace plan and then stick by it
- 2 years ago
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Bren589
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freecrack
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it would be nice if for once a peace negotiation wasnt following the path of who started it and instead recognizes peace is needed regardless
- 2 years ago
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freecrack
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bansheewail
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Leadership.
Rachel Corrie(youtube) would be happy and proud.
- 2 years ago
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bansheewail
