Herzog ahead of PM-Kerry meeting in Davos: Peace talks at turning point (barf)

Jerusalem Post ^ | 23/1/14 | Lahav Harkov

[Eleutheria5]

Negotiations have reached a peak in which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas must decide if they really want peace, opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Thursday evening.

Referring to Netanyahu's meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos planned for Friday, Herzog said "Netanyahu and Abbas must decide whether they will move toward peace or blink, retract and lead us to adverse developments."

"Both American and Israeli leaders have seen this picture before," Herzog added. "Time and again, talks come to this point."

The opposition leader said both sides have to make a genuine, bold effort for peace.

"It's not easy for anyone. It's not easy for Netanyahu; not in his party. I'm not sure he has the courage [to take bold steps], but I'm trying to encourage him to do so," Herzog said.

As for those who blame the Palestinians for peace talks, Herzog said "the other side could drive us crazy, but we inherited this [situation] and we have to deal with it."

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[Eleutheria5]

...he said, admiring himself in the mirror.

[2banana]

“If only the Jews would give up all their land and commit suicide - we could have a good shot at peace...”

[goodnesswins]

I’m sick of them appeasing the idiot bullies of the world...

[elpadre]

Palestinians must publically state Israel’s right to existence. If Bibi goes along with the proposed plan and gives away Israel’s land he is destroying Israel’s chance for survival. His real choice is will Israel live or die, IMO.

[Eleutheria5]

But it is time we dealt with the situation./irony

[faithhopecharity]

JSS. Jewish suicide syndrome. It’s both the result of past, and the invitation to further, anti-Semitic attacks on the Jews. Pity.

[Eleutheria5]

There are bullors, who allow themselves to be pushed around, and bullies, who are allowed to push people around. Let us stop being bullors, and then the bullies will be bulless.

[Impy]

Isaac Herzog is a graduate of Cornell university, figures.

[SJackson]

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So many turning points, no wonder Kerry is dizzy.

[AdmSmith]

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, was recently interviewed about Syria. While many of his assertions can be debated, one especially requires a response. Throughout the interview, he repeatedly insisted that, if Bashar Assad would only leave power, everything would go well — especially for all of Syria’s minorities.

In his words: “I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Ismailis, Alawites — all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kerry declared that “The world would protect the Alawites, Druze, Christians, and all minorities in Syria after the ousting of Assad.”

The problem here is that we have precedent — exact precedent. We’ve seen this paradigm before and know precisely what happens once strongman dictators like Assad are gone.
http://www.meforum.org/3725/pluralistic-syria