Posted on 01/15/2017 6:40:42 AM PST by mandaladon
Paris (AFP) - France warned Sunday of "serious consequences" if Donald Trump moves to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital as representatives from 70 countries met in Paris to try to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
Neither Israel nor the Palestinians are represented at the conference, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed as "futile".
Opening the meeting, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the international community wanted to "forcefully reiterate that the two-state solution is the only solution possible" to the seven-decade-old conflict.
He also warned the US president-elect against relocating the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in a move to recognise the contested city as Israel's capital.
Ayrault said such a move, which Trump promised during campaigning, would have "extremely serious consequences" and predicted the incoming US leader would find it impossible to implement.
"When you are president of the United States, you cannot take such a stubborn and such a unilateral view on this issue. You have to try to create the conditions for peace," he told France 3 TV.
Both Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas have been invited to meet with President Francois Hollande to discuss the conclusions of the Paris talks.
Abbas, who has backed the conference, is expected to travel to Paris in the coming weeks but Netanyahu has rejected the offer, French diplomats said.
The Israeli premier on Sunday again heaped criticism on the conference, calling it "futile."
"It was coordinated between the French and the Palestinians with the aim of imposing upon Israel conditions that are incompatible with our national needs," he told a weekly cabinet meeting.
The Paris conference is mainly symbolic, but comes at a crucial juncture for the Middle East, five days before Trump is sworn in as US president.
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They have no business telling Trump or any other American what to do and how to run OUR OWN COUNTRY.
HELLO!!! This is NOT your country. Mind your own _____ business.
The French have short memories. It is the US who freed them from subjugation, it is the US who re-built their industrial sector - it is the USA who brought them back from the precipice. They should forever be one of the USA’s most ardent supporters.
What this conference wants to do has been tried many, many times; over many, many years and always failed because of the Muslim basic tenet that they will not accept Israel as a nation.
Knowing this, I think the old definition for insanity would apply.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
What this conference wants to do has been tried many, many times; over many, many years and always failed because of the Muslim basic tenet that they will not accept Israel as a nation.
Knowing this, I think the old definition for insanity would apply.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
Not dissing your idea, but “Pali exports” is kinda funny.
Those inbreds got nothing.
[ They would have ports for export/import ]
They could import ... really long matches.
The globalist leftist “2 state solution” is so ultra hypocritical it’s laughable. By this argument American Indians should be given half of the United States. At least American indians have a more legitimate claim than the Fakeistinians.
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