Israeli Prime Minister Threatens ‘Unilateral’ Action Against Palestinians If Talks Break Down
Source: Agence France-Presse
Jerusalem (AFP) Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:34:45 PM
Israel and the Palestinians held last-ditch talks with a US envoy Sunday on salvaging their teetering peace talks, after the Jewish state threatened to take retaliatory measures.
Warning that the peace process was on the edge of collapse, an Israeli official close to the talks said that even US Secretary of State John Kerry, its tireless sponsor, was cooling off.
"The way it's looking now, the talks as they were several weeks ago are no longer relevant," the source told Israeli news website Ynet.
"Israel is preparing to return to routine dealings with the Palestinians as they were before the negotiations started nine months ago," he said.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/06/israeli-prime-minister-threatens-unilateral-action-against-palestinians-if-talks-break-down/
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chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)is an ASSHOLE!
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)sure as hell is…. Ms. Bigmack
2banon
(7,321 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)time to revisit and step up boycotting Israeli products, movement. I haven't seriously involved myself in that movement, but maybe it's time to reconsider.
StoneCarver
(249 posts)But I' sick of the Isralies screwing the palesteniants. If the foot were on the other shoe it would be reversed -but it isn't. Bin Lauden made a poster child of the Palenstienens and we paid the price. When an F-16 drops bombs or a M1-Abrams tank rolls in, it is not the Isralies but the US. That is why we paid with the World Trade Center and Pentagon. (They don’t hate our way of life, they hate what we do –Not that I agree with their methods.) Did the Chinese pay? No. Like I said I don't want anyone hurt, but this blind support of Israel is costing us dearly. And it’s not ant-Semetic - its apartheid. The multi-nationals get it, why don't we. Israel is screwed in the long term, and I feel bad for them. They just don’t realize it. (forgive the spelling.)
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Someone needs to save Israel from itself.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)Obama asked Netanyahu a great question when Netanyahu was in the US - "What is your alternative?". Given the settlements that continue to grow and the failure again of a two state solution, that means the alternative IS a one state reality.
One of the first things people saying when arguing for Israel is that it is the only democracy in the Middle East. However, if you look at the current reality as what they are - instead of seeing it as a temporary state until the occupied territories are resolved by a future 2 state solution, this is NOT what any American could see as a democracy -- and it is not what I see as stemming from Jewish values.
It is troubling to think that a baby born 47 years ago in the West Bank would have - for his entire life - never had the rights of a full citizen in the country that controls the area in which he lives. Add to that, that the country that has control has not ruled benignly. There are excellent roads that link the settlements to each other and to Israel proper that are for Israelis - including those living in the settlements - only. There are checkpoints even between cities in the West Bank.
Netanyahu, with his threats to lift even the minor improvements in the West Bank - that he did ONLY at American insistence. It seems clear that he wants to provoke the Palestinians. If they respond with violence, Netanyahu or his RW allies, Israeli or American (like Adelson) will likely blame Kerry and Obama.
The alternative to likely violence once any hope for their own state dissolves is a democratic state where everyone has the same rights. This is even farther from where Netanyahu and the right are - so it is hard to see how you get there - when the less radical idea - of a two state solution similar to all two state solutions proposed for decades.