Thread: Middle East diplomatic Quartet to meet in Paris april 15

Mid east quartet= EU, Russia, UN & US to meet on west asia peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/middleeast/03mideast.html?_r=1&hp

Germany, France and Britain say negotiations should be based on the 1967 lines with equivalent land swaps

israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the palestinians or face a UN vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza & East Jerusalem.

Palestinian State UN seat: steadily building support for such a UN resolution in September, a move that could place Israel into a diplomatic vise. Israel would be occupying land belonging to a fellow United Nations member, land it has controlled and settled for more than four decades and some of which it expects to keep in any two-state solution
The US may not be able to stop that UN resolution as it has previously when it protected israeli interests

With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a UN vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes the west bank

Palestine as a member of the UN changes everything.
“2011 is going to be a diplomatic 1973,” because a Palestinian state will be recognized internationally. “Every military base in the West Bank will be contravening the sovereignty of an independent U.N. member state.” He added, “A diplomatic siege from without and a civil uprising from within will grip Israel in a stranglehold.”


The next US Secretary of State may be pro Palestinian Samantha Power.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Samantha-Power-to-be-next-Secretary-of-State-119112959.html

“All these years, the main obstacle to peace has been the settlements,” Nimer Hammad, a political adviser to President Abbas, said. “They always say, ‘but you never made it a condition of negotiations before.’ And we say, ‘that was a mistake”
…. exactly what the Netanyahu government rejects because it says it predetermines the outcome.

pressure on Israel to make it feel isolated and help it understand that there can be no talks without a stop to settlements,”

From the atricle:

“Does the world think it is going to force Israel to declare the 1967 lines and giving up Jerusalem as a basis for negotiation?” asked a top Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “That will never happen.”

Another country for France to "assist" with democracy.

Originally Posted by OhOh

From the atricle:

“Does the world think it is going to force Israel to declare the 1967 lines and giving up Jerusalem as a basis for negotiation?” asked a top Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “That will never happen.”

Another country for France to "assist" with democracy.

mid east is west asia .. but this should be in world .. oh well

i agree israel has no intention of returning to '67 borders .. or giving up much.
never has, never will .. all the previous 'negotiations' were a time delaying scam

what does palestine gain by getting a un seat?

any demand by the un for israel to negotiate would probably result in israel telling the un to go suck a gentile.

so what does the un do? blockade zion?
if the un sent forces would the us financially support both sides?

obama's top adviser speaks on sending military to palestine: