Livni: Time is running out for peace process

[IndianaGreen]

Last update - 23:42 14/05/2009

Livni: Time is running out for peace process

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Thursday warned that time was running out on achieving a peace deal with the Palestinians, saying "we mustn't delay the inevitable with useless diplomatic moves."

"Time is not working in favor of those who want to retain Israel's Jewish identity, and time is not in favor of moderate powers in the region," Livni declared at a conference of the Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies in Herzliya.

Days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled trip to Washington, the former foreign minister said that the idea of a bi-national state for two peoples was "a strategic threat, no less menacing than any other threat."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085637.html

[Scurrilous]

1. U.S. Senator Kerry: Chances for two-state solution dwindling

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"U.S. Senator John Kerry told an economic forum on Friday he believed the window of opportunity for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was closing.

"It's closing for a number of reasons - crushed aspirations, demographics, realities on the ground," the Massachusetts Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan.

Kerry's comments came amid mounting international pressure on Israel to accept the two-state solution, a step Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reluctant to take."

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[IndianaGreen]

2. If not 2-state solution, then a binational state

Take your pick.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. Time has run out for a negotiated peace.

The last Israeli election marked the end of the possibility for a negotiated, consensual peace, I think. The left and the peace camp in Israel are essentially dead, or at least in hibernation. Right now, Israeli political debate is mostly between the right, far-right and far-far-right, at least when it comes to the Palestinians (on domestic/economic issues, Israel is probably to the left of the US).

The only chance for peace now is if the US and EU force Israel to make concessions against its will.