Cables show US doubts on Mideast peace: WikiLeaks

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Source: AFP

PARIS — Fresh leaks of diplomatic cables from 2009 by online whistleblower Wikileaks Monday showed US doubts over Israel's commitment to the Middle East peace process due to disagreement over Israeli settlements.

A US cable from November 2009, published online by Wikileaks and by French newspaper Le Monde, said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wanted to negotiate with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen.

But it added: "it remains unclear to us how far Netanyahu is prepared to go."

He "is interested in taking steps to strengthen Abu Mazen, but he will not agree to the total freeze on Israeli construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that Abu Mazen insists is a requirement" for negotiations, it said.

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[go west young man]

1. Yet at the same time we pledge to give Israel 30 billion dollars.

http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2007/08/07TELAVIV2652.html

Man are we ever two faced and seriously stupid with our tax payer dollars.

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2. I wonder at the rationality of giving aid to any country that won't recognize the c

the country that has been right next to them for the last 60+ years.

You realize there are still countries that don't even RECOGNIZE israel? This country has existed since before most posters here were born. It has existed longer than Yugoslavia did. It seems likely to continue existing, barring iran keeping its promise to wipe it from the map.

Funding this kind of irrationality isn't fostering peace, it is furthering political instability. Life has never been fair. It still isn't fair. It will never be fair, not even in the most progressively imaginable thought-controlled progressive society you can imagine. War is hell. There are winners and losers. Even the United Nations itself cannot change this time-old reality, no matter how many votes and speeches they make.

Once you get into timeframes of this scale, you might as well start rolling back the WWI maps, and heaven forbid we look at the american civil war. Maybe some here will start agitating that the treaty of utrecht, signed by spain, shouldn't be binding that same spain anymore vis a vis gibraltar.

Additionally, Spain and Portugal have notable claims against latin america. Extant indian tribes will have even more compelling claims against the iberians.