Quartet peace initiative failed

Published: 1/10/2011 at 11:16 PM
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France's foreign minister said Saturday that an initiative of the international Quartet on Israeli-Palestinian peace had failed and urged the resumption of negotiations.

``The initiative of the Quartet'' of the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, which announced a bid Friday to renew peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, ``did not succeed,'' minister Alain Juppe said at a press conference with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini.``We think that the status quo is dangerous for everybody and that it is necessary to return to the negotiating table,'' he said.Frattini, for his part, said the European Union should ``continue to push the two parties to urgently restart negotiations.''The Quartet's proposal calls for talks to begin within a month, for both sides to produce concrete ideas on security and borders within three months and for a final deal to be reached before the end of 2012.It came shortly after the Palestinians submitted their bid to join the United Nations as a member state.Frattini said a failure of the UN bid could cause ``a fracture between the West and the Arab world... or even worse, may provoke a division within the European Union''.Both ministers criticised the green light given by Israel Thursday for the construction of 1,100 new homes in Gilo in annexed east Jerusalem, which Frattini said ``does not assist the peace process.''Juppe said the...

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Discussion 1 : 02/10/2011 at 09:42 AM1
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Does the world NEED another "Islamic Republic?" Do you know that PAL refuses to allow 1 Jew to live in "Palestine", they have a 'death sentence to anyone selling land to Jews, to violate the Oslo & Camp David accords about unilateral action? They have no governmental economic infrastructure (money, banks, etc.) and are perpetual victims. The ONLY 60+ year refugee community. The best educated, economically secure Arabs in the ME live in Israel (where gays & women have human rights & need not fear stoning!) Learn history:

"The “Mandate for Palestine,” an historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law. The “Mandate for Palestine” was not a naive vision briefly embraced by the international community. Fifty-one member countries – the entire League of Nations – unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their NATIONAL home in that country.”It is important to point out that political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed by the same League of Nations in four other mandates – in Lebanon and Syria (The French Mandate), Iraq, and later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate].

Websters dictionary of NATIONAL: Of or relating to a nation; common to or characteristic of a whole nation.
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