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What exactly did Secretary Kerry achieve? After a three-year standoff in which Prime Minister Netanyahu demanded the administration roll back its insistence on a settlement freeze, then rejected the terms of reference reached in previous rounds of negotiations – including the internationally-accepted pre-1967 borders, and finally introduced a new, bizarre demand (the recognition of Israel “as a Jewish state”) – after all that, the State Department basically agreed to everything the Israeli Right wanted and then bullied the Palestinian Authority into negotiations. The most striking part in all the reports about peace talks is that the U.S. administration didn’t get a single concession – not one – from Netanyahu (unless there are some secret deals we know nothing about). All Israel agreed to were “good-will gestures,” which have nothing to do with the issues at the heart of negotiations. -- Noam Sheizaf 972mag/the-peace-industrys-slippery-slope/76876/
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:14:48 +0000

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