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US officials: Even if Israel doesn't like it, Palestinians will get state
Times of Israel ^ | 5/3/14 | staff

Posted on 05/04/2014 10:47:50 AM PDT by Nachum

American officials directly involved in the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the last nine months gave a leading Israeli columnist a withering assessment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the negotiations, indicated that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has completely given up on the prospect of a negotiated solution, and warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to Nahum Barnea, a prominent columnist from Israel’s best-selling daily Yedioth Aharonoth, the officials highlighted Netanyahu’s ongoing settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame” for the failure of Secretary of State John Kerry’s July 2013-April 2014 effort to broker a permanent peace accord.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2statesolution; israel; kerry; palestine; palistinians; secstatekerry
Members of Kerry’s team slam Netanyahu, empathize with Abbas, warn Palestine will rise ‘whether through violence or via int’l organizations’

Dear Mr. Kerry; -Those who reap the whirlwind....

1 posted on 05/04/2014 10:47:50 AM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 05/04/2014 10:48:16 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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3 posted on 05/04/2014 10:51:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Nachum

Kerry will likely get a lot of things he doesn’t like as well. Just saying.


4 posted on 05/04/2014 10:56:48 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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The administration letting their inner Putin out. Another terror state in the middle east is a priority for America.

5 posted on 05/04/2014 10:56:51 AM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: Nachum
John Kerry in giving the reason why the obama misadministration felt it could impose it's illegitimate will upon another sovereign nation said:

"We believe that...............................F-You Israel!

6 posted on 05/04/2014 10:58:09 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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they have one, it's called Gaza... move there or die works for me
7 posted on 05/04/2014 11:13:32 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Nachum

I may be a little rusty on this, but wasn’t Palestine divided between Israel and JORDAN? So where does this upstart Palestine nation come from when it should be part of Jordan?


8 posted on 05/04/2014 11:25:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Nachum
warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence.

I wouldn't place any bets on the Jordyptians winning a state through violence. I think that's been tried before.

And have the recognize Israel's right to exist yet?

9 posted on 05/04/2014 11:50:16 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Nachum

How about this: Even if the Obama Administration doesn’t like it, the Palestinians get the state they were promised - Jordan.

Go ahead. Push that one, Kerry.


10 posted on 05/04/2014 1:11:42 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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And have them recognize Israel's right to exist yet?

It looks like Obama and Kerry haven't recognized Israel's right to exist. Which brings an interesting question to my mind. Could Israel defend itself against the U.S.A.? Abbas speaks of international organizations, of which the U.S.A. is a member. Interesting times ahead.

11 posted on 05/04/2014 1:15:02 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You’re not so rusty on the issue. Israel got a mere fraction of what was promised for the original division; Jordan got the greater share of Palestine, and won’t give up an inch (at least since ‘67). They didn’t give the West Bank to the Palestinians before 1967 when it was part of Jordan.


12 posted on 05/04/2014 1:22:03 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Nachum

Have to wonder how many of that 2.4 million will still be paying 6 to 9 months from now, when they learn the full cost of obamacare.


13 posted on 05/04/2014 2:31:51 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And if I have my history correct, Jordan was part of Israel back in the Bible days. So, if true, Jordan also belongs to Israel.


14 posted on 05/04/2014 3:41:27 PM PDT by Catsrus (A)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"Kerry will likely get a lot of things he doesn’t like as well. Just saying."

Today's Mossad is not the Mossad of the 70's and before. Kerry, obama, reid, peolosi and the rest know it.

15 posted on 05/05/2014 4:51:31 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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To: Nachum

They already have one. It’s called Jordan.


16 posted on 05/05/2014 6:44:39 AM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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They already have one. It’s called Jordan.

It's called: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, etc.

In other words, they are just plain Arabs. And there are plenty of Arab states.

17 posted on 05/05/2014 6:47:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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