Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Israelis and Palestinians Re-Start Peace Talks

Negotiating Final Status Agreement for Two States 

Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would convene again in the Middle East within two weeks and that their goal would be to work out a comprehensive peace agreement within nine months. (The New York Times, 30 July)

Kerry described the talks in Washington on Monday and Tuesday as constructive, and said they had involved three-way discussions that included the United States, as well as direct discussions between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

“The parties have agreed to remain engaged in sustained, continuous and substantive negotiations on the core issues,” said Kerry, who was flanked by Tzipi Livni, Israel’s justice minister, and Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator.
“Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months,” Mr. Kerry said. “We all understand the goal we are working towards: two states living side by side in peace and security.” (The New York Times, 30 July)

Earlier in the day, Mr. Kerry and the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators went to the White House to meet with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Photo credit: John Kerry with chief negotiators Tzipi Livni of Israel (R) and Saeb Erekat of Palestine. Washington, 30 July 2013. (Reuters)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Puppets on a broken string! These farcical "negotiations" have as much chance of "success" as Dracula turning into a vegetarian.

Nader Uskowi said...

What a profound analysis! The reality is that Palestinians and Israelis need to end the conflict, no matter if their current governments are incapable or unwilling to do so. That’s why such initiatives are good, no matter how low the chance for success, because at the end of the day these initiatives are correct and the two states will sooner than later be created alongside each other. Notwithstanding bad wishers who paratactically want to see Palestinians suffer more years under the occupation.

Anonymous said...

Define "sooner than later" perhaps you meant "sooner or later",as for what sort of "state" the palestinians would be permitted,I think it would probably look like and be as much of state as the apartheid homelands of 70s south africa.So long as israel is under no pressure and the palestinians are forced to make all the concessions then one can only be pessimistic

mat said...

It is well believed that the well-known of the so-called world's most evil nation of the Zionist Regime of Israel hypocrisies' will definitely bear no fruit. What a waste of talks!

Anonymous said...

Yes, pigs will fly and man on the moon will be instrumental in signing this "peace sooner or later". What a fantastical imagination or unending delusions.

Nader Uskowi said...

Yes, sooner than later a Palestinian state needs to be created alongside Israel. The extremists on both sides, in Israel and in the Muslim world, oppose the two-state solution. They each want the elimination of one or the other. Palestinian leadership wants peace with Israel, and they are not after the elimination of the country. It is the people on the extreme right that wish for the elimination of Israel, and people on extreme right in Israel who also do not want to see the creation of Palestine.

Anonymous said...

AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 12:17 AM, in other words, the zionist regime is only willing to accept bantustans as their definition of a Palestinian state.

Anonymous said...

This week, the RIA Novosti agency has published an article "US-brokered Mideast Peace Efforts Have Produced Iconic Images" that includes nine photos depicting members of previous "Peace Talks" and showing among others A. Sadat, J. Carter, J.Arafat pushed "cordially" by E. Barak as well as A. Sharon, Clinton, Bush etc...

Looks like those talks so far are about next talks and money for their participants...

Zionists have been claiming that the Palestinian refugees abandoned their land and "voluntarily" moved to other countries...so they have no true rights for a "return", and their return would cause an "imbalance" of israel's population.... so in the 1900s the Western countries proposed to Arafat that he will receive over $40 billions and has to convince those refugees to settle in other countries for those money, and they would have to waive their rights for a return..

During Kosovo war, close to a 90% of the population fled to neighbouring countries and they had the right for a RETURN...after the Serbian army was defeated.

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