France's Proposed Solution To Israel-Palestine Conflict Sidelines U.S.
Source: Huffington
WASHINGTON -- Since the the latest round of U.S.-led peace talks collapsed last year, the international community has left the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to fester.
Three months after talks failed, war broke out in Gaza between Hamas and the Israeli military, leaving 66 Israelis and more than 2,000 Palestinians dead. In March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured re-election after a campaign in which he suggested he would not allow for the creation of a Palestinian state. And on Sept. 30, amid escalating violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly he would no longer abide by the Oslo Accords, a Clinton-era attempt to finalize Palestinian statehood by 1998.
"Never before in my memory has there been such a total absence of any sense of hope of political horizon," said Daniel Seidemann, the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, a nonprofit organization that tracks changes in Jerusalem that could affect a future two-state solution.
Now, with the peace process stalled, Israeli hardliners empowered, settlements expanding, escalating violence in Jerusalem and West Bank, and talk of a third intifada, the French have decided it's time for the international community to change its strategy -- and end the U.S. monopoly on the peace process.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to deal with.
Let someone else take a whack at it.
Nitram
(22,892 posts)A French diplomat is quoted as saying, "U.S. engagement, while indispensable, is not sufficient," and I agree. If a new coalition can get Israel to stop building illegal settlements, and to dismantle existing ones, I'm all for it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)We lost our status as "honest brokers" long ago.
47of74
(18,470 posts)US passports have the request message in three languages, English, Spanish, and French.
I wonder if that's caused any cranial events for reich wingers who hate France...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)...English is far and away the dominant language in diplomatic, inter-cultural and trade exchanges.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Globally, younger people are learning English because that's the primary language of the Internet.
Nitram
(22,892 posts)It has to do with global power and trade.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)Or maybe you have a short attention span.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Sorry, I was looking at porn.
Nitram
(22,892 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Twenty years since Camp David, and all our government does is apologize and make excuses for Israel.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)and is seen by the international community as merely acting as Israel's interlocutor
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Israel barely listens to us and it doesn't listen to anyone else.
If the US had stopped being Israel's apologist and enabler, the peace would have arrived long ago.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)I don't think the shape of the table matters much in the current situation myself. The current Israeli government has absolutely no interest in peace and the Palestinian side is disorganized. For all the commentary about America's status as an honest broker in this, I suspect we're no worse than the parties involved nor the big batch of European imperialists the French want to include.
