Posted on 07/28/2013 5:56:43 PM PDT by haffast
Israeli and Palestinian leaders will resume face-to-face peace talks on Monday in Washington, the State Department said Sunday.
The restart of the long-stalled talks is being attributed to Secretary of State John Kerry's six months of frenetic shuttle diplomacy.
Agency spokeswoman Jen Psaki said both sides had accepted invitations from Kerry to come to Washington "to formally resume direct final status negotiations" that are scheduled to begin Monday evening and continue Tuesday.
Psaki said in a statement that Kerry on Sunday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and that the leaders agreed the talks would "serve as an opportunity to develop a procedural work plan for how the parties can proceed with the negotiations in the coming months."
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One possibility is the so-called "two-state solution" that establishes an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
The statement was released shortly after the Israeli Cabinet agreed to release 104 long-term Palestinian prisoners convicted of deadly attacks, meeting a longstanding Palestinian demand.
"This moment is not easy for me," Netanyahu said. "It is not easy for the ministers. It is not easy especially for the families, the bereaved families, whose heart I understand. But there are moments in which tough decisions must be made for the good of the country and this is one of those moments."
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What's wrong with this picture?
That subtle intersection where hate meets hated.
Abbas: More financing of terrorists with NO accountability.
Israel: Stupidly releases terrorists to murder more.
US taxpayers: Screwed for Eternity for helping terrorists
and terrorism.
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