When is a meeting not a meeting? When it's attended by Binyamin Netanyahu and '
moderate' '
Palestinian' President
Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen without preconditions.
US Secretary of State John Kerry's formula for renewing negotiations
between Israel and the Palestinians consists of a marathon series of
meetings between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, some to be attended by Kerry himself.
Netanyahu
has already told the Americans he agrees to the plan, and heavy
pressure is now being placed on Abbas to accept the formula.
The talks would only be considered part of the efforts to renew
negotiations, and would not constitute an actual renewal of negotiations
themselves. This formula would allow Abbas to circumvent the
preconditions to negotiations that he has set and avoid criticism.
And that depends on the definition of 'is.' What could go wrong?
Negotiations to decide whether to negotiate on having negotiations. And people take this stuff seriously. Perhaps they should replace John Kerry with Monty Python.
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