Friday, December 06, 2013

Kerry Connects the Dots

Connect the dots, from:

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that he had provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel with “some thoughts” about security arrangements that could be put in place if Israel and the Palestinians negotiated a peace agreement.  Mr. Kerry presented the ideas on security arrangements in the West Bank and in the Jordan Valley along with John R. Allen

to:

Secretary's Remarks: Statement Following Meeting With President Mahmoud Abbas12/05/2013 12:01 PM EST
Statement Following Meeting With President Mahmoud Abbas
...the goal here for everybody is a viable Palestinian state with the Palestinian people living side by side in peace with the state of Israel and with the people of Israel.
I think the interests are very similar, but there are questions of sovereignty, questions of respect and dignity which are obviously significant to the Palestinians, and for the Israelis very serious questions of security and also of longer-term issues of how we end this conflict once and for all.
So we will continue. I’m returning now to Jerusalem to have further conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and then shortly, perhaps in a week or so, may return for further discussions

to:


PA Official: We Reject US Safeguards for Israel in Peace Plan 

and to


Palestinians held talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday on a possible future peace accord with Israel and emerged with mixed descriptions of how much common ground they had found with Israel's most vital ally.
One Palestinian official told Reuters his side had rejected Kerry's ideas for future security arrangements, without giving details of the proposals.

to - and who said:

"...for the settlers, by the settlers, from the settlers.”

Saeb Erekat.

See the connections?


Oh, and do not forget:


The Palestinian negotiating team [aka Erefat] has already presented its resignation over the issue, but Abbas has not yet accepted it.


P.S.

Guess what?

New Wave Poll: 87.5%:6% current talks with Palestinians will not reach deal
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 6 December 2013


Do you believe that the negotiations underway now will reach a peace
agreement with the Palestinians?
Yes 6%       No 87.5%        Don't know 6.5%





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