It broke my heart, but at least it is a success for Israel.
"Palestinians ready to extend talks with Israel" by Karin Laub | Associated Press, December 19, 2013
BEIT JALLA, West Bank —With little progress so far, the Americans are now setting their sights on a preliminary deal, “a framework agreement.’’
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Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, denied reports, including those from senior Abbas aides, that US Secretary of State John F. Kerry presented a proposal for security arrangements between Israel and a future state of Palestine in talks this month.
Palestinian officials have said that under that proposal, Israeli troops would be able to control Palestine’s eastern border with Jordan for at least 10 years.
I don't see how any Palestinian, no matter how slavish to the Zionists, can accept that.
Abbas aides have in the past balked at the idea of a long-term Israeli military presence in a future Palestinian state.
Because it would be nothing more than continued occupation.
Erekat said Wednesday that Kerry did not present comprehensive proposals.
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Kerry tells me more than a framework is possible! An actual deal may be made!
"Kerry: Mideast peace still possible despite rifts" by Deb Riechmann | Associated Press, January 03, 2014
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel blasted his Palestinian partner in peace-making efforts Thursday, accusing him of embracing terrorists ‘‘as heroes,’’ harsh words that clouded the start of Secretary of State John Kerry’s tenth trip to the region to negotiate a peace deal he says is ‘‘not mission impossible.’’
That, the settlement announcement, and the Pollard thing. Anything else, Israel?
Kerry arrived in Israel to broker negotiations that are entering a difficult phase; they are aimed at creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel. He had dinner with Netanyahu and planned to be in the West Bank on Friday to talk with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Kerry is asking both leaders to make tough, highly charged political decisions in hopes of narrowing differences on a framework for a final peace pact.
I would say it is more like summer except for the snow.
Netanyahu greeted Kerry at the prime minister’s office and joked it had been a long time since he’d seen him.
Given the actions taken before he arrived, I'm not finding anything funny.
But after the initial small talk, the Israeli leader took aim at Abbas. He said Abbas’s homecoming for Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails this week had led more Israelis to wonder if the Palestinians seriously want to find a way to end the decades-long dispute.
Palestinians know you are not serious.
‘‘I know that you’re committed to peace,’’ Netanyahu told Kerry. ‘‘I know that I’m committed to peace, but unfortunately, given the actions and words of Palestinian leaders, there’s growing doubt in Israel that the Palestinians are committed to peace.’’
One begins to understand that any charge Israel hurls on another is one in which they are in fact guilty.
Netanyahu was referring to events surrounding Israel’s release on Tuesday of more than two dozen Palestinian prisoners convicted in deadly attacks against Israelis. Netanyahu has faced political pressure from hard-liners for agreeing to release 104 Palestinian prisoners as part of a US-brokered package to restart the peace talks.
As with earlier releases, the Palestinian prisoners received a hero’s welcome upon their return to the West Bank and Gaza, with officials and jubilant relatives lining up to greet them.
As would happen in any country. AmeriuKan media would carry it as breaking news like the hostage return.
At his headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas waited to meet the men in the middle of the night, and he pledged not to sign any peace deal until all prisoners were released.
While he gave them a hero’s welcome, Abbas, a longstanding critic of violence who has pledged his commitment to a two-state solution, did not condone the prisoners’ deeds.
Netanyahu, however, accused Abbas of embracing terrorists ‘‘as heroes.’’
‘‘To glorify the murders of innocent women and men as heroes is an outrage. . . . How can he say that he stands against terrorism when he embraces the perpetrators of terrorism and glorifies them as heroes?’’ Netanyahu asked.
Shocking when you consider the filth in my history books and jewsmedia!
Israel hits Hamas after Gaza attack
Globe Xmas Gift: Little Town of Bethlehem
Israeli air force strikes Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks
I stand corrected in an article I never saw in my printed paper, sorry.
‘‘I’m wondering what a young Palestinian would think when he sees the leader of the Palestinian people embrace people who axed innocent men and women — axed their heads or blew them up or riddled them with bullets. What’s a young Palestinian supposed to think about the future?’’
Okay. What would a young American or Israel think of theirs?
‘‘This is not the way to achieve peace,’’ Netanyahu said.
Reacting to Netanyahu’s words, Wasil Abu Yousif, a Palestinian official, lamented:
‘‘We, the Palestinians, are under the Israeli occupation. Israel is taking our land and giving it to Jewish settlers. This is the only reason we don’t have peace here. . . . Netanyahu is trying to divert the attention from the real reason to a fake one.’’
Sorry, but that is all true.
Under heavy pressure from Kerry, Israel and the Palestinians resumed peace talks in July.
See: The Kerry Chronicles: Paying Lip Service to Palestinians
As a precondition, the Israelis agreed to release prisoners, and the Palestinians dropped a demand for a halt in Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, captured areas they claim for a future state.
The Palestinians say continued settlement construction on these lands is a sign of bad faith. Kerry and the European Union also have criticized settlement construction.
And…. ??
Ahead of Kerry’s arrival, Israel said that it would formally announce plans to build 1,400 new settlement homes — an apparent attempt to blunt hard-line anger over the prisoner release.
Related: Official says Israel plans new settlement construction
But in a gesture to Kerry, Israel backed away from the announcement this week. Israeli news media have said the construction will be approved after Kerry leaves.
Pffft!
In what they said was a message to Kerry, a senior Israeli cabinet minister and more than a dozen hawkish lawmakers poured cement at a construction site in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley on Thursday, saying Israel will never relinquish the strategic area.
Oh, they sent a message to him, huh?!?
Virtually all of the politicians were either members of Netanyahu’s Likud or other parties in his coalition. Their visit to the isolated community of Gitit highlighted the political backlash Netanyahu would face if he agreed to leave the valley in a peace deal.
The valley runs along the eastern edge of the West Bank, abutting Jordan, and its fate is expected to be one of the key issues raised during Kerry’s visit.
Despite the latest rifts, Kerry tried to remain upbeat, saying: ‘‘It’s a tough road. But this is not mission impossible.’’
It was the raising of hopes that let me down so much.
Kerry reiterated the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and said he would work intensely with both sides to narrow differences on a framework that would address all core issues, including borders between Israel and a future Palestine, security, Palestinian refugees, and the conflicting claims to the holy city of Jerusalem.
Did he get down on his knees and pucker up to kiss pooper, too?
‘‘It would create the fixed, defined parameters by which the parties would then know where they are going and what the end result can be,’’ Kerry said.
Like a framework, right?
Meanwhile, Israel said it has arrested four Palestinians on suspicion of placing a pipe bomb on board a bus in the center of the country last week.
The bomb went off just after the bus had been evacuated — the most serious attack inside Israel in more than a year.
So no one was killed or injured, huh?
Related: Police blame Palestinian militants for bus blast
Shin Bet: Israeli bus bomb resembled Boston Marathon explosive
Pfft!
Then it's a false flag hoax, huh?
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Israel's Tea Party
I've Seen the Hilltop
Israeli Dream House
Ever notice they always "catch" the Palestinian terrorists?
Also see: Palestinians Exact Price Tag From Israeli Settlers
You see who caught 'em and who came and saved them (through the Jewish media spin), right?
According to a court statement on the arrests, one of the four was a Palestinian policeman, which drew an immediate response from Netanyahu.
‘‘This is further proof of the direct involvement of Palestinian Authority personnel in terrorism. It is time that Abu [Abbas] stops celebrating with released killers and leads his people in the way of peace,’’ the prime minister said.
And cui bono?
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"John Kerry keeps focus on Mideast peace talks, despite sniping on all sides" by Deb Riechmann | Associated Press, January 04, 2014
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John Kerry’s closed-door diplomacy to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians has burst into a public spat, with both sides trading blistering criticisms, Republican senators showing up in Jerusalem to argue Israel’s side, and Palestinian demonstrators protesting his visit.
Not only is that an offensive insult, it is also unconstitutional and illegal.
Kerry is on his 10th trip to the region to try to craft a peace treaty that would create a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
He met for three hours on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Later in the day, Kerry traveled to Ramallah, West Bank, to speak with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Although battered by sniping from all sides, Kerry remained upbeat — at least publicly.
Asked if he was making progress, Kerry replied that progress is being made daily.
Earlier, about 150 Palestinians protesters marched in the streets of downtown Ramallah to protest Kerry’s visit. They carried Palestinian flags and signs that said: ‘‘The northern, central, and southern Jordan Valley are a genuine part of Palestinian sovereignty.’’ The West Bank’s Jordan Valley is a strategic area along the border with Jordan that Israeli hardliners, including members of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, say must be annexed by Israel for security.
And Kerry has adopted the Israeli position.
Even in Jerusalem, Kerry could not escape domestic politics interfering with international diplomacy. Three Republican senators held a news conference after meeting with the Israeli leader, reiterated his concerns, thereby emboldening Netanyahu’s position right before Kerry’s talks with Abbas.
‘‘Prime Minister Netanyahu has serious, serious concerns about the plan that has been presented to him — whether it be the ability of Israel to defend its borders, the viability of a Palestinian state and their intentions and their actions toward the state of Israel, and particularly on the overall security — whether it’s boundaries, areas under Palestinian control,’’ Senator John McCain of Arizona said.
McCain was in Israel with fellow Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, after a visit to Afghanistan.
I assume they will be arrested and imprisoned upon returning to AmeriKa.
They used a news conference to express support for a bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran if it violated a recent nuclear pact it made with the United States, led by Kerry, and five other world powers, a deal Israel opposes.
Yeah, you can Kish off peace with them.
Related: Senator John McCain says CIA misled Congress
26 senators defy Obama, back Iran sanctions bill
Plenty of biparti$an$hip there.
If it was perturbed, the Kerry camp did not share its irritation at the senatorial criticism from the sidelines. After spending 30 years in the Senate, Kerry is a big believer in lawmakers going abroad and joining in foreign policy debate, a State Department spokeswoman said.
Even though it is unconstitutional and treason.
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See: John Kerry’s tenacious diplomacy offers hope for Mideast peace
I didn't even get a framework!
"Kerry is trying to move Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas closer to an agreement that would establish a Palestinian state. The talks have entered a phase aimed at getting the two sides to agree on a framework for the final settlement, but Kerry was not expected to wrap up a framework on this trip."
(Blog editor now crying at the top of his lungs. Waaaaaah! Waaaaah! I've been DECEIVED by my jewsmedia yet again! I was LED to BELIEVE by Kerry a DEAL was possible, and that at least a FRAMEWORK was in the works. And now, NOTHING! Waaaaaah! Waaaaaah!)
Madness! Madness!
And as promised:
"Israel has given final approval to building 272 more apartments in two isolated West Bank settlements, officials confirmed Monday, just as Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up his latest mediating mission to the region. Kerry returned to Washington on Monday, after several days of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in hopes of forging the outlines of a peace deal. Kerry reported progress, but gaps remain….
In other developments, a key political ally warned Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he would quit the coalition government if Israel recognizes its pre-1967 war frontier as a starting point for border talks with the Palestinians.
Such recognition is expected to be part of a proposed framework for a peace deal to be presented by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in coming weeks. Kerry returned to Washington on Monday after a mediating mission that included meetings with Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967, but are ready to accept some modifications that would enable Israel to keep some of its settlements."
You will excuse me if I don't get excited about the future framework to be presented in a couple of weeks. I'm just left steaming and it is not the cold.
