"Kerry returning to Mideast next week" Associated Press, June 04, 2013
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the Middle East next week in another bid to revitalize peace hopes, officials said Monday, with the contours of a package possibly emerging to lure Israel and the Palestinians back into direct negotiations.
It will be Kerry’s fifth trip to the Jewish state since becoming America’s top diplomat in February.
You think I'm out there when I'm saying he's an errand boy for Israel, but there he is. That's why they wanted him, not Rice.
He will also visit the West Bank and Jordan to push for a restart in face-to-face peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders that broke down nearly five years ago, US officials said....
Details of the trip dovetail with Kerry’s own assessment about the timing of the process he started with President Obama’s blessing in March....
See: Obama's Trip to Israel
Instead of presenting his own master plan for peace, US officials say, Kerry is focused on starting several talks between the two parties, with the hope that progress on different fronts would entice each side into more flexible peace talks than those that have failed repeatedly in the past.
For the Palestinians, he has tried to curtail Israeli settlement construction in lands the Palestinians hope to include in their future state and recently announced work on a $4 billion plan with international investors to jump-start the moribund Palestinian economy.
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I simply wrote WOW at the end of that seeing as he adopted the Israeli position.
Related: Settling on This Post
I worked hard on that post and I know no one liked it, so.... I don't know what to do here.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Settlement building on West Bank accelerates
It complicates John Kerry visit days before he arrives in Israel?
