Israel negotiator: US should change its role in Middle East peace talks

[Jefferson23]

Tzipi Livni called on US to allow for more direct talks between Israel and Palestine as current talks veered towards collapse


The US should change its role in the Middle East peace process, allowing for more direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel's chief negotiator said on Saturday.

The US-brokered peace talks veered toward collapse this week, prompting a warning from secretary of state John Kerry on Friday that Washington was evaluating whether it was worth continuing its role in the negotiations.

"Part of what happened in the past few months was more negotiations between us and the United States and less with the Palestinians," Tzipi Livni told Israeli television.

"I believe we need to move to more meetings, more direct negotiations, more than we have had so far, and I think the Americans know this," Livni said. "American involvement – yes, but as facilitators of bilateral negotiations."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/tzipi-livni-israel-palestine-peace-talks-us-role-kerry

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Livni is right. The USA should step back and let others like the UN

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Do their job and stay out of the way.

[King_David]

2. Always makes sense to cut out the middle man...