After months of largely fruitless indirect peace talks and weeks of angry bickering over terms it seems the direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials will take place after all, with a September 2 summit in Washington DC serving as the official start of the new round of talks.
In addition to the expected attendance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah will also attend.
The direct talks had been seen as all but inevitable over the past few weeks after Abbas gave in to US demands on the talks, but the terms had still been a matter of no small contention, with Netanyahu rejecting the talks just days ago because he was upset that the formal offer for talks mentioned the 1967 borders as a possible basis.
Yet both Netanyahu and Abbas are going to be facing significant lobbies in their respective camps in opposition to the talks, and there is no guarantee that the talks will end any better than the indirect talks have. Still the talks will be a major turning point in and of themselves in that the two sides haven’t even been willing to sit down and talk for nearly two years.
Obama forces Abbas to come to DC, where he can be crushed and hectored and intimidated by all four countries that hate Palestine, into agreeing to a form of Legalized Apartheid that they will call a state, but which won't be a state at all … and you call that a major turning point? In what way did you mean 'turning point'? Did you mean in the sense of a capitulation by Abbas, brought about because he is regarded by his people as useless and illegitimate, and therefore he has no powerbase left other than what Obama gives him? This Abbas who cannot even hold an election because he knows he and his party will be crushed, this lameduck Abbas who has come to betray his people?
That MUST be what you mean by "turning point", right, because anything else would be flaming bullshit.
Or were you trying to fluff up Obama for his next sickening bogus Nobel Peace Price?
eppie –
Let me get this – you do not support peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians? I thought this is the "antiwar" website.
What is your alternative?
Is there anything Israel can do (besides destroying itself) that can make you support peace?
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