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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 10:21 PM Dec 2013

"Kerry to Mideast next week for peace talks: Palestinians"

Kerry to Mideast next week for peace talks: Palestinians

the Daily Star (Lebanon)

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Dec-28/242543-kerry-to-mideast-next-week-for-peace-talks-palestinians.ashx#axzz2omNW7KKt

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According to a well-informed Palestinian source, the US chief diplomat plans to stay in the Middle East for a "number of days" in what would be his 10th visit to the region since March.

Kerry, who helped to launch nine-month direct talks between the two sides in July, insisted this month that concrete progress had been made in the peace talks.

But he said details would be kept under wraps as talking about any agreements could be counterproductive.

"I'm personally encouraged that very tough issues are beginning to take shape," he said in an interview with ABC television on December 15.

"But we've agreed not to be talking about what we're doing because it just creates great expectations. It creates pressure. It creates opposition, in some cases.



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"Kerry to Mideast next week for peace talks: Palestinians" (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2013 OP
Seriously, John. Give it up. US policy is frankly laughable when it comes to Israel. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2013 #1
Best Wishes SOS Kerry! Cha Dec 2013 #2
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
1. Seriously, John. Give it up. US policy is frankly laughable when it comes to Israel.
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 11:39 PM
Dec 2013

The USA gives 3.1 billion annually to he apartheid state and looks the other way while doing it. What's worse is that Israeli leadership continually mocks the US with plans and threats to build more illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.

Israel controls 60% of the West Bank through illegal settlements and "military zones" while hemming the indigenous population onto the rest. What farms that remain to the Palestinians are under intense scrutiny on when they can be farmed yet illegal Israeli settlers are free to destroy these farms and olive groves with impunity.

Now the Knesset hopes to pass a law annexing the West Bank: overt hostility at its best.

And that's just for starters.


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