Though there has been no public confirmation to that effect, reports are that Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will call for a partial freeze of Israeli settlements and the release of 103 Palestinian prisoners.
The partial freeze will only cover areas outside of the existing settlement blocs, and won’t prevent them from being expanded. That’s likely to be controversial, with parts of Israel’s government ruling out any freeze of any sort, and Palestinian negotiators believing it will be hard to make any deals if the borders keep changing.
The aspects of the deal were reported in London daily al-Hayat, which also reports that the effort seeks 6-9 months of peace talks, with billions of dollars in economic development in the Palestinian territories being a major incentive for the PA’s involvement.
The economic incentives appear to be the same ones that Kerry announced in May, and they will seek to allow Palestinian construction in Area C of the West Bank, despite the area being under direct Israeli military control.
These people selling every rights of the Palestinians people to their bosses, as the bosses sold Jesus to the highest bider of Roman Empire.
Of course, if the Palestinians have to agree to continued settlement expansion even before any negotiations, then there's no hope at all that the negotiations would limit future expansion and any chance of getting the stolen land returned is completely gone.
And that's assuming Israel actually abides by the terms of an agreement, instead of just breaking it whenever they see fit like they normally do.
Ketchup Kerry's ancestors probably "negotiated" with the American Indians too.
Fail…even after all the evidence to the contrary, the US still believes there is a 2-state solution.
The word 'partial' says it all. The US and its phony 'peace process' has had one 'partial' attempt after another and even then it has ended up in failure after failure. Unless of course you take into account that the whole thing has been a successful attempt to deceive the world into believing that the US wants peace to succeed and the conflict between Palestine and Israel resolved with fairness for all.
Secretary of State Lurch is a slut for Israel. No one, anywhere, with any sort of sense, believes this is any more than Kabuki theater.
Love this. How bold, US. A feigned suggestion of a "partial" freeze on settlements that every country in the world, besides the US and Israel, agrees are grossly illegal.