"Kerry announces breakthrough on Mideast peace process"

[applegrove]

Kerry announces breakthrough on Mideast peace process

By Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/07/19/.UenH4XF7cL0.reddit

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The New York Times had a good piece summarizing Kerry's approach thus far.


Mr. Abbas has for years insisted that any new talks be conducted on the basis of Israel's borders before it seized Arab territories in the 1967 war, with minor adjustments. Mr. Netanyahu has just as steadfastly refused.

To skirt that apparent stalemate, Mr. Kerry's team has tried to come up with a new framework, according to American, Israeli and Palestinian officials who have been involved in the process.

One possibility, they said, is that the United States will invite the two sides to the talks on the basis of the 1967 prewar borders and the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, though Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas would not explicitly endorse those terms and might even oppose them while agreeing to negotiate.


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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Rec... it's something...

...but not much.

[iandhr]

3. Agreed...

...Clinton, Rice, Powell, Albright, Christopher, and Baker also tried to solve

[Cha]

2. Encouraging and I'm all for that, mahalo applegrove~

[flamingdem]

7. This is news we can believe in!

[Cha]

8. Yeah, seems like a good source.. as opposed to

the source regarding Kerry "putting the screws to Venezuela".

[snappyturtle]

4. The Maddow link told me zero. Do you have a llink to the NYTimes?

Is the "breakthrough" just that they've agreed to negotiate?

[applegrove]

5. Considering that they have not been negotiating or even talking for years..yeah, I'd call it a

breakthrough. Personally, I think this whole terrorism against the west would have the winds knocked out of its sails if there ever was peace in Paliestine/Israel. I'm a little sensitive to any hope. So I saw the article posted it. I had not seen the original. Yesterday I posted an article from CNN that was very vague about what the breakthrough was.

[snappyturtle]

6. Thank you for your reply. I think resolution to the issues between Palestine/Israel

are SOooooo long overdue and that you're right... critical to world peace. imho

[LittleBlue]

9. This isn't much of a breakthrough

We've been here before. Nothing will change. The US has demonstrated that it is not interested in Mid East peace.

[MH1]

10. Well, we have to go back through "here" before we can get anywhere.

It's a step in the right direction. Considering how long things have been stalled, or worse, any movement in the right direction seems like a breakthrough.