Posted on 08/13/2013 6:39:23 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Middle East peace talks could "collapse" due to continuing Israeli settlement expansion, a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official warned Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of the fragile process.
"Settlement expansion goes against the U.S. administration's pledges and threatens to cause the negotiations' collapse," Yasser Abed Rabbo told AFP.
The comments came after Israeli authorities approved the construction of a total of more than 2,000 homes in Jerusalem and the Biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria, in the days leading up to Wednesday's scheduled new round of direct talks between the Israel and the PA.
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And what business does the US have unilaterally pledging to stop Israelis from building new houses? Talks should collapse over that alone.
Talks might collapse? And new houses will be built? Win/win.
‘zackly.
It’s always gonna be something with these ragheads.
What talks? The PA has refused to directly negotiate with Israel for several years now. They just sit and let the US pressure Israel to make unilateral concessions - which is exactly what Obama does. Why should they negotiate in that environment?
If this be “threatening” the piece talks, let’s make the most of it.
But, but...... I thought John F’n Kerry had this all worked out.
Yes. Actually, this whole "talks" business started with that idiot Jimmy Carter the terrorist-lover, and since then the PA has never spent one day in honest "talks."
And the UN still keeps the charade going.
Can we admit that the Oslo Accords are dead? (Well, no, old lib lies never die.)
It is a zombie piece accord. To believe in it, you have to either get your brains eaten, or be a liberal.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The talks were going to collapse anyway. Whether it was over housing or the right of return of Palis to overwhelm the Israelis from within, or many other things, it was preordained that the talks would fail.
There’s no politicial consensus in the Arab world for real peace with Israel—only for convenient hudnas here and there.
Of course. The important thing for the left is that they blame it on the right, and continue to pretend that but for these houses the talks would have lead to a lasting piece, and then push to try again, whereupon they’ll find some other pretext to blame the right for the failure of the talks.
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