their urging AND five bucks will get them a cup of burnt coffee at $tarbucks too
Posted on 01/15/2017 10:51:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
PARIS — Diplomats from more than 70 countries called Sunday for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state and urged Israel and Palestinians to restart direct negotiations.
In their joint declaration at the conclusion of a Mideast conference here, the envoys urged Israel and the Palestinians to restate their commitment to the goal of two states living side by side in peace and security.
The representatives, including Secretary of State John F. Kerry, also warned that continued acts of violence and the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank needed to stop.
The two-page closing statement was meant to send a message from Europe and the Arab states to the incoming Trump administration that the international community wants to keep hope alive for a two-state solution to the long-running conflict.
The joint declaration urged both sides to “disassociate from voices” that reject this. Israel’s current coalition government is filled with ministers who have openly rejected the two-state solution, including some leaders who want to annex 60 percent of the West Bank.
Neither Israel nor the Palestinians attened the conference. Palestinians welcomed the meeting, while Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the gathering “rigged” against Israel and “futile.”
Netanyahu instead said that the delegates to the Paris meeting should press Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table.
France’s foreign minister kicked off the conference Sunday by warning that moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would have “extremely serious consequences” for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Characterizing it as a provocation, Jean-Marc Ayrault said he doubted President-elect Donald Trump would in the end actually fulfill his pledge to relocate the embassy in a city that Israelis have named as their capital and Palestinians desire a part of
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They've been fighting for over a millennium. But the dips think they can solve it this time. An exercise in futility.
Trump - the so-called “anti-Semite” - wants to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, the city at the core of Jewish aspirations. No “anti-Semite” would propose what Trump is proposing, yet Trump’s alleged anti-Semitism was one of the MSM’s main arguments against him.
Back in the 90’s, didn’t Clinton and Israel come up with a two-state solution that agreed to about 98% of the Palestinians’ demands, and didn’t the Palestinians refuse the offer?
The French leftists need the muzzies to vote for them in the upcoming election so that they can defeat LePen. That’s why the leftists want to keep importing the muzzies. Very similar to the US Dems importing immigrants as voters. It’s all globalist and short term reasoning.
I think they’re trying to bait and drag Trump into it do they can make this a bigger election issue in France.
I think Europe will be gone in a generation. What Trump should do is offer amnesty to those tradional Western Euopeans that are being oppressed by leftist governments and Muslims.
Definitely offer asylum in the US to oppressed French Jews.
their urging AND five bucks will get them a cup of burnt coffee at $tarbucks too
STFU France. It’s not up to you what the U.S. does with it’s embassy.
“Definitely offer asylum in the US to oppressed French Jews.”
Jewish people trend heavily toward socialism and French people trend equally heavy toward idiotism.
My suggestion is that French Jews go to Israel rather than the US. With the way the UN is screwing around, Israel is going to need to expand into the paliscumist squatter camps fair soon so they’ll have room for more people anyway.
I was kinda meh on this issue but now that France has spoken against, I am definitely for.
This is the one and only reason I'd have any interest where French Jews go.
I'd rather see them go to Israel than the U.S., too. Can we get them to take the 70% of American Jews who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election with them?
Trump better pay attention, because when you've lost France, you've lost . . . well, France, or part of it, anyway.
I have serious reservations about it because Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), John McCain (R-ISIS) and Lindsey Graham (R-Saudi Arabia) have been its loudest supporters in Washington.
“Neither Israel nor the Palestinians attened the conference.”
Good work by the diplomats of the ‘international community’.
See ya at the next conference, everyone!
>It’s kind of funny that I see this the other way around.
>I have serious reservations about it because Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), John McCain (R-ISIS) and Lindsey Graham (R-Saudi Arabia) have been its loudest supporters in Washington.
They’re taking money from the Israelis too. I haven’t seen a lot of facts on it, but I think a large part of their support for the Syrian Jihadists stems from Israel’s desire to see Syria destabilized for their own security.
I can’t condemn Israel for their actions as a nation state’s first goal is always their own security, but I think they’re being very short sighted about the issue. ISIS would be a much bigger threat to them than the Syrian state ever would be. Of course this isn’t the first time Israel has made a mistake like this. Israel admitted that they setup Hamas in order to try to divide up Palestine terrorist groups with a group they controlled. Of course Hamas got out of control almost immediately. Huge mistake.
Is Marshal Petain back in power in Vichy France?
Yeah. France seems to have its own Muslim problem that they are not able to manage, let alone tell Israel how to manage theirs.
France already has a Palestinian State.
Its called Paris.
I won’t condemn Israel for that, either. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. should march in lockstep with them on this, either. I’ve long suggested that the U.S. should step back from this issue and let it run its course among the principals over there in the Middle East — unless and until our own interests are at stake.
> I’ve long suggested that the U.S. should step back from this issue and let it run its course among the principals over there in the Middle East — unless and until our own interests are at stake.
I agree.
Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel, period.
How can Jerusalem be the capital of Israel, and how can the U.S. recognize it as such, if both countries are signatories to the Israel/Palestinian agreements in the 1990s in which it was agreed that the legal status of Jerusalem was subject to future negotiations between the two sides?
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