US officials today declared that it was entirely up to the Palestinian Authority to revive the stalled peace talks with Israel, and if the group wanted US support on a final settlement of borders they would have to resume the talks unconditionally.
Palestinian officials have insisted that Israel halt expansion of its West Bank settlements before resumption of the talks, and demands from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to retain permanent military control over the demilitarized future Palestinian state have left the prospects for talks weaker than ever.
Netanyahu, who has repeatedly rejected halting settlement freezes since taking office last year, mocked today’s meeting between PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and US envoy George Mitchell as a “waste of time,” and insisted that only the Palestinians are standing in the way of peace and prosperity.
Though President Obama had initially made the peace talks a top priority he has recently insisted that the issue is “just really hard” and that breakthroughs probably aren’t likely. Today’s comments from Mitchell suggest the administration is returning to the default American position of insisting that it is entirely up to the Palestinians to solve the issue.
So-o-o according to US negotiators, it is up to the Palestinians to achieve peace by allowing Israel to continue to take their land from them and settle it with Israelis. And according to the Israelis, there will only be peace if the Palestinians leave, die, or are killed by the Israelis, i.e. operation "cast lead". The US is admitting that it is powerless against a nation of 5 million that would not exist if not for US tax dollars provided to Israel and accepting agreements that are beneficial only to Israel, but detrimental to US citizens. If the US cooperates with Israel in the murder of Palestinians, Lebanese and muslims, it will have acts of retribution committed against it. Perhaps the Bush Administration never left but morphed into the Obama Administration that perpetrates the same policies.
The only language that Israel government would understand is the cooperation between Europe and USA to a broad economic blockade of Israel and relinquish the US loans and guaranties.., above all.., war crime trial in international court of justice…, otherwise both Europeans and USA is wasting their time to negotiate with a fascist and a apartheid regime. Having said that, nor the Europeans or the Americans want to have a Islamic fundamentalist stat next to Israel.., in the other hand what is Israel…, they themselves are a fanatic Jewish state which they have grown to become a fascist regime.
I find it quite outrageous that Mr. Mitchell is blaming the householder rather than the burglar … please
get back to basics by calling a spade a spade, Palestinians are the victims in this story they have been wronged, abused massacred and robbed blind over the last 62 I repeat 62 years with the active collaboration of the US, let us all hang our heads in shame for our allowing ourselves to become an audience to this sorry debacle of bloody victimization. I say we have had our fill of BS it is time to wake up from this feeling of helplessness demand justice for the Palestinians.
FYI; PaulBass, if France, England, USA were peacefull nations and not pirates,WWI WWII and Israel wouldn't happened. 60 million Europeans were slaughtered in WWII for the creation of Israel.
Peace is no military. No military is no world problems :^/
I suggest highly Paul,you read today's RETURN OF THE NEOCONS
After you read it TWICE–let us know if WWI WWII brought peace or more correctly–piece of Palestine, all of Europe, Iraq, East Asia,Africia, South Americia Ect.
I guess in your wropped mind–nuking Cubia would bring another piece to the war mongering pirating UnitedstateofIsrael
?
huh.
i said
"peace is war, war is peace." – an allusion to orwell
"this civilization is finished" – i was including europe all though only a periphery now
"to bad bush jr will go down as the best president of 21st century. " – meaning its all down hill from now.
"i guess in your [sic]wropped mind–[sic]nuking [sic]Cubia would bring another [sic]piece to the war mongering pirating [sic] UnitedstateofIsrael "
huh? you see there is a slight problem with your use of "United states of israel" i don't beleive israel had much to do with destroying the…
the five nation of the iroquois confederacy
the cherokee nation
the five civilized tribes
the kingdom of hawii
cuba
the Philippines
guam
these where all good old fashion christian imperialism, but if you mean christians by you reference to israel then ok but other wise you seem to be missing the point.
but then again i might just be a Zionist apologist for denying that every act of violence in history was a jewish plot.
or perhaps i just misread what you tried to write
According to the prophet Zechariah (Chapter 14) , there is *'another'* option.
Good for Obama and Clinton! They are doing what needs to be done; bury the TSS (Two State Solution) all the way down to the center of the earth so we can start working toward a unified, secular, truly democratic, multi-ethnic, multicultural, binational state (call it whatever you want) that will treat Jews and Palestinians equally. The Palestinian refugees will have the same right of return as Jews enjoy and it will be up to the diaspora Jews whether to maintain demographic advantage by massive immigration to Israel or to abandon Israel/Palestine to the inevitable Palestinian majority, hastened, perhaps by emigration back to Europe, America, Australia or, yes, other Middle Easern countries which they fled two generations ago.
One sensible MK recently made the most reasonable (and inevitable) suggestion that Israel annex West Bank and Gaza; once that is done, we are looking at a two generation long non-violent struggle by the Palestinians for equality which cannot but succeed. It will all be sugar and spice thereafter.
I agree 100% . The 2 state solution is simply a diversion tactic by the zionist entity to buy time for more land grabs. If the Palestinians would give up on a state and start adjitating for "inclusion" into Israel it would be very difficult for the zionist entity to continue vilifying the indigenous people. They will do all they can to steer them up by commiting atrocities but if the indigenous people can wade it out they will prevail by numbers alone. It may take a while but it is worth it.
A so called "aparthied" jewish state can not survive in todays world. Most jews I know claim they have no interest in a "jewish state".
The Jewish apartheid state has been surviving for over 60 years….
A single bi-national state is the only possible solution.
It should be finally accepted by most every thinking person that US policies(?) in the Middle East are derived from an acceptance of what an Israeli Nobel Prize winner along with others claim is the "best method" to deal with Palestinians.
The 2005 Nobel Economics Prize was granted on October 10th, to a Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling for their work on “Game Theory”.
Robert J. Aumann, is an Israeli theoretician.
His theories cover the application of the principle of “forceful cooperation” due to the “fear of punishment” in the treatment given to the Palestinians, a method that, by establishing collective punishment, violates international conventions. He is a member of an extremist organization, "Professors for a Strong Israel," which he himself helped create to sabotage the Oslo accords.
Mr. Aumann, who defends "Greater Israel", upon a Jewish racial foundation, opposes the creation of a Palestinian state".
Could that explain why the US claiming to be an impartial and ethical "middle-man" is not capable of bringing this festering issue before an international court of law for a principled resolution?
Of the three sides in the MidEast peace, the Palestinians are the weakest side. How do the Palestinians hold the most control. This sounds the old trick of blaming the Palestinians for a peace proccess they have the least control over.
Some "honest broker" we are.
Time for the US to leave the theatre and cut off aid and loans to all countries in the area. And the world for that matter. Individuals can always send their money wherever they wish.
What a bizarro world we live in.
So much for an Obama "more even-handed" approach!
According to the Obama Administration it is up to the victim of child molestation to find a way to live with the perp.
peace is war, war is peace.
this civilization is finished
to bad bush jr will go down as the best president of 21st century.
You've got bigger problems than that – your Presidents and congress aren't running the country. So in other words your elected officials are pointless. Meaning you don't live in a democracy.
But you probably already knew that.
Even for those who don't belong to Islam, it is shocking, obscene and unjust to tell the Palestinians that it is up to them to resume peace talks. What kind of logic is this? What a disgusting and cowardly role the US plays. No wonder Palestinians and others in the region resort to violence. What else can they do if following the "legal, decent, civilized" way doesn't work?
When in doubt, stick it to the Palestinians.
What the US and Israel want from the Palestinians amounts to nothing less but surrender, and that’s unlikely to happen. The result is more resistance against occupation resulting in more violence and bloodshed for years to come.
World War II was a continuation of unfinished WWI and WWII is not finished yet. Israel was created not because of the Europeans feeling sorry for the Jewish people been killed by then Fascist regime of the German Nazism, Israel was created to become a buffer zone between the Arab Nationalist in one hand and the other to serve the economical and geopolitical interests of Europe and USA.
Therefore, whichever of the European or USA or China or Russia and etc. is able to maintain its power and control of the region (from the beaches in Israel to Afghanistan – Pakistan borders) would become the leader in dominating the world economical power, so far with USSR included., there is non who could claim a total victory, meanwhile the people of Palestine, Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Americans, English and Arabs in general are those paying the price by putting their life in line of these unjustified and falsified wars.., this been happening since the “end” of WWII.
The only thing that is different between now and then is that: the war machinery has become more sophisticated otherwise Israel is as dictator as the Iranian regime is and the brutality of the communism and capitalism is the same as it was
in 1917 and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Moreover, if anyone is going to ask from either the Iranian or Israeli or for that matter the Europeans Liberals “where is democracy” noon would have any answer but to say.., “when is time your vote is our democracy”. I guess you can figure that out…?