Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit to Israel is being couched as an attempt to kickstart a virtually stalled peace process, trying to keep the Palestinians from abandoning the process outright after repeated Israeli settlement expansions, destruction of Palestinian homes and reports that Israel is dictating a border based on the West Bank wall.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be set for this collapse of talks at this point, and is instead trying to forward the narrative that it’s going to be all the Palestinians’ fault, despite how totally reasonably he believes he’s being.
Kerry, for his part, criticized Israel’s settlements, insisting that they are “illegitimate,” and said there was never any deal forcing the Palestinians to endorse the settlements as a term for the talks.
The rumored deal was for a one-off 1,000 settlement unit expansion setting the stage for an unofficial freeze, but Israel has repeatedly expanded settlements by many thousands of units since then, nominally to placate far-right Israeli MPs who oppose the peace talks.
Palistinians fault? While you are at it Bibi blame John Kerry for not allowing you to expand more settlements.
Kerry hasn't and probably never will tell Netanyahoo that the US demands Israel to cease building new settlements on stolen land. The US only goes as far as stating that the settlements are “illegitimate,” but nothing stronger. Kerry is another of the entrenched Israel-Firsters in the USG. Once built the Israelis will never willingly return the land to the Palestinians.
Stop giving them money. It's the ONLY thing they understand. Money is power. People who didn't develop normally want power. The more people they can kick around, the bigger, and stronger they feel.
bibi will crap all over him like he continues to do to the Palestinians
The Zionist and by extension t the settlers on occupied Palestinian land controls the US Government most of your elected officials continue to commit treason against the US for the Zionist.
You could have posted the title for this post years before the latest "talks" ever started. Inevitable, I believe is the word I am thinking of here. Yeah, that's it, bound to have happened this way. Nutty-assed Yahoo does NOT want real peace with the Palestinians. Never has, never will.
Nit reminds me of a scene in the movie "Independence Day." The president asked a captured alien what they want us to do. The alien replies, "Die."
This is a great example of "actions speak louder than words".
The Obama regime has so far vetoed three UN resolutions condemning Israel. The US doesn't have to do that. It could move to the side of the rest of the world, and enforce the complete world consensus that the solution needs to be the june 1967 border. If the US allowed the international legal consensus to be enforced, Israel wouldn't be able to do anything about it and would be done expanding.
That the US instead blocks this from happening, and in fact has vetoed almost a hundred resolutions to prevent it, usually as the only country in the world besides Israel opposing the resolutions, means the US actually doesn't care whether Israel stops its settlement expansion, and may very well prefer the expansion to continue, if you take US actions as any indication.
A couple of public statements once in a while from US officials mean nothing.