The U.S. and European powers are moving to delay a U.N. Security Council vote on Palestinian statehood well beyond this week in a bid to revive direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis and sidestep an American veto.
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U.S. Plans to Delay Palestinian State Vote
AP – The Obama administration’s furious efforts to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks this summer are going nowhere, and a looming U.N. confrontation could further set back prospects for a negotiated settlement any time soon.
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US push for Middle East peace talks foundering
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The Obama administration and European governments are accelerating their efforts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks, arguing they have only a month to head off a Palestinian drive to seek statehood through a United Nations vote.
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U.S. Pushes New Effort on Peace in Mideast
AP – Israel’s leader, trying to defuse reports of a crisis with the U.S. over his rejection of President Barack Obama’s proposed foundation for future Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Saturday that media accounts of the disagreement have been “blown way out of proportion.”
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Israel’s leader denies crisis with US
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AFP – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in Tehran on Saturday that direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were aimed only at bolstering support for President Barack Obama inside the United States.
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Syria’s Assad says Mideast peace talks aim to boost Obama
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AP – Syrian President Bashar Assad offered dim hopes Saturday for any success in Middle East peace talks, saying the White House is only using its mediation between Israelis and Palestinians to score political points in the United States.
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Syrian leader: Mideast talks only to help Obama
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Reuters – The Obama administration is “hopeful” the Israelis and Palestinians will compromise on the explosive West Bank settlements issue and avert a collapse of peace talks, a top White House adviser said Sunday.
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U.S. hopeful on Israeli settlements talks: Obama aide
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AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing.
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Peace talks in jeopardy, Clinton and Abbas meet
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Newsbusters has the full story . And click the image to watch: So the truth is sad, presumably, because the deaths of innocent Israelis would be a worthwhile price to pay for the progression of Middle East peace talks, by Stengel’s account. That is what Stengel is saying: the wall has succeeded, but at the price of impeding the peace talks. He says that fact is sad, meaning no wall, or a less effective wall would be preferable. More Israelis would die from car bombings, but at least the peace talks would move forward. Solomonia has more: Was that the reason for the fence? To separate people? Well…kinda. It was to separate blood thirsty murderers from their victims. In that matter, it has been successful. Singularly successful. That’s what its proponents always said they wanted, not a sociology experiment on a mass scale. But Stengel can’t admit it. He begins noting the obvious good it has wrought, and has to, needs to, twist it into something it’s not.
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Time’s Richard Stengel is ‘Sad’ That Israel’s Security Wall ‘Has Actually Worked’
