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| Netanyahu tells Kerry Israel opposed to French UN bid |
| 2014-12-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected bids to impose a United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... deadline on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict amid a flurry of talks led by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... Addressing a renewed drive to push the Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor to the top of the global agenda, Kerry and Netanyahu met for nearly three hours in the US ambassador’s sumptuous residence in Rome. “The attempts by Paleostinians and some European countries to impose conditions on Israel will only deteriorate regional security and endanger Israel, so we strongly oppose it,” Netanyahu said after rejecting the proposed withdrawal to Kerry. The Americans are seeking to avert an end-of-year showdown at the United Nations Security Council, which could place them in a diplomatic quandary. The Paleostinians have said they will submit an Arab-backed draft text — setting a two-year deadline for an end to Israel’s decades-long control of the West Bank — to the UN as early as Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... La Belle France has been leading European efforts to cobble together a more nuanced resolution that could prove more palatable to the US administration. Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian UN ambassador, said Monday the Paleostinians were planning to put a resolution in a form that could be voted upon on Wednesday, though the council was unlikely to vote immediately. What that resolution says will depend on the outcome of the high-level negotiations in Europe, Mansour said. He told a group of news hounds Monday that the Americans are key. They have two options: to negotiate on the Paleostinian and French texts, or produce their own draft resolution, he said. Mansour said the French draft is “very, very close to the Arab ideas” and includes a timeframe for negotiations, but the Paleostinians “want to define clearly the end to occupation.” He stressed that the Paleostinians will not return to direct negotiations with Israel and strongly support the French proposal for an international conference to promote a peace deal that would include the five veto-wielding Security Council nations, key Arab countries and others. “We tried direct negotiations for 20 years and they failed,” Mansour said. “That is history.” The French text would set a two-year timetable, but for concluding a peace treaty without mentioning Israeli withdrawal. Gay Paree is also hoping to seize more of the initiative by not leaving the negotiations solely in the hands of the US. “What we are hoping for is a resolution which everyone can get behind,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told AFP. “Even if the Paleostinians have a text in their hand, the Americans have already said that they will veto it,” he said. “So on the one hand this resolution cannot be accepted, but on the other that will clearly get a strong reaction from the Paleostinian side.” “The absence of a grinding of the peace processor is fueling tensions on the ground, so it is imperative to make rapid progress on a UN resolution,” said French Foreign Ministry front man Romain Nadal. “It is vital to relaunch the peace talks as soon as possible and on a credible basis to offer some kind of concrete political horizon to the parties,” he told AFP. US officials have said Kerry is aiming to learn more about the European initiative during his hastily arranged pre-Christmas trip. Traditionally, the US has used its power of veto at the UN Security Council to shoot down what it sees as moves against its close regional ally, Israel. But there is a growing impatience in Europe over the peace impasse amid fears the Middle East risks spiraling into even greater chaos. Several European parliaments have called on their governments to move ahead with the recognition of a Paleostinian state. US officials told news hounds accompanying Kerry that Washington has not yet decided whether to veto or back the French-led UN initiative. The US administration opposes moves to bind negotiators’ hands through a UN resolution — particularly any attempt to set a deadline for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Kerry also met with the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and thanked Pope Francis for “his engagement to try to reduce tensions in the region.” The secretary of state was due to fly to Gay Paree for a dinner meeting with his French, German and British counterparts and the new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at Orly Aairport. He will then travel to London to meet with the chief Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... and the secretary general of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Nabil Elaraby, on Tuesday. Fabius, the French foreign minister, is also to meet with Elaraby on Tuesday. Diplomatic sources say Gay Paree is hoping to persuade the Paleostinians to back their compromise resolution, rather than risk a US veto of the more muscular Arab version. But the Paleostinians appear divided, as frustration grows over the snail’s pace of diplomatic efforts, with the decision resting with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial.... |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 #4 Pappy wins the thread! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-12-16 20:16 |
| #5 how to get Jahn a Nobel Peace Prize before he's drummed out ...and completely destroy what little credibility it has left. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-12-16 18:46 |
| #4 a flurry of talks Kinda like a snow flurry - lots of moving flakes, but nothing sticks to the ground. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-16 18:42 |
| #3 That's a nice phrase- a flurry of talks. Kind of sums up Hildebeast's, JFnK's and O's whole overseas strategy. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-12-16 16:31 |
| #2 "A flurry of talks led by John Kerry" That's a nice phrase- a flurry of talks. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2014-12-16 10:16 |
| #1 because that's the hottest burning issue: how to get Jahn a Nobel Peace Prize before he's drummed out |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-12-16 07:00 |