Obama to host Netanyahu and Abu Mazen in New York this week
President Obama will host a 'summit' with Prime Minister Netanyahu and 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Nir Hefetz, who heads the public relations desk in the Prime Minister's Office, said in response to the announcement that, "Prime Minister Netanyahu warmly accepts the invitation extended by the U.S. administration for a meeting with the U.S. president, and for a trilateral meeting with the president and with the president of the Palestinian Authority."The meeting will follow individual meetings between Obama and each of Netanyahu and Abu Mazen. Expectations are apparently quite low.
A senior Netanyahu aide added: "The meeting will be held without preconditions, as the prime minister had always wanted."
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat confirmed Abbas would attend the meeting and said he hopes the meeting will renew talks.
The Palestinian leader held talks with Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, for over a year without achieving an agreement.
On Friday, the possibility of a three-way meeting had been in doubt because Mitchell failed to bridge wide gaps between Israelis and Palestinians.
Obama has set the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as a major goal of his young presidency, and dispatched Mitchell as a White House envoy to soften the ground on both sides.
Over four days, Mitchell met twice with Abbas and four times with Netanyahu, including twice on Friday before Mitchell left the Middle East.
The reality is that there isn't going to be a deal because the 'Palestinians' and their Arab Muslim patrons aren't willing to accept the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East, and most Israelis have woken up and smelled the coffee in time to avoid committing suicide.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:47 PM
2 Comments:
This explains everything.
It will just be a photo opportunity. One shouldn't read any thing more into it.
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