How to hold a 'peace conference' without either of the sides making 'peace'
Among the participants will be US Secretary of State John Kerry, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, and representatives from the Arab League. Although Russia, Germany, Britain and Japan will be among the 26 representations at the conference, they will not be represented by their foreign ministers.What could go wrong?
Following an opening statement by Hollande, each representative is expected to make a statement on the primacy of Middle East peace and the importance of retaining the possibility of the two state solution.
The conference is expected to conclude with a press conference where conclusions – worked upon by the delegations on Thursday night – will be presented. The summit will be the first international gathering on the Middle East peace process since then US President George Bush convened the Annapolis conference in 2007. Both Israel and the Palestinians were invited to that parley.
The meeting’s initial focus is to reaffirm existing international texts and resolutions that are based on achieving a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip co-existing with Israel, an outcome the French said in a pre-summit document is increasingly coming under threat.
That document blamed the threat to the two-state solution primarily on settlement activity, without mentioning Palestinian violence, the Hamas-Fatah split, or the consistent Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.
However, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a Le Monde interview that in order for there to be an agreement, the Palestinians needed reconciliation between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, and that Hamas needed to take the first step by recognizing Israel, accepting previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and forswearing violence.
The Paris meeting will try to establish working groups comprising various countries that would meet in the coming months and tackle all aspects of the peace process.
Some groups would strive to creating economic incentives and security guarantees to convince both sides to return to talks. Others would focus on trying to find ways to break deadlocks that scuttled previous negotiations or look at whether other peace efforts such as a 2002 Arab initiative remain viable.
"France isn't trying to reinvent things that already are out there. The idea is to rebuild confidence and convince everybody to work together to find a way to get to the next conference," a senior french diplomat said. He said the objective was to get Israelis and Palestinians back together after the U.S. elections.
Shabbat Shalom everyone.
Labels: Federica Mogherini, France, John Kerry, Middle East peace process, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Saudi plan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:06 PM
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I really think that John Kerry is a French citizen at this point. He's never got a thing to say or do unless it can be in Paris. That's really the only reason for this meeting, it's a junket.
Have you ever considered that the fleur-de-lis looks remarkably like a chicken's upraised tail?
Thanks so much for these details:"French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a Le Monde interview that in order for there to be an agreement, the Palestinians needed reconciliation between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, and that Hamas needed to take the first step by recognizing Israel, accepting previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and forswearing violence." which I wasn't aware of.
This video
http://thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2016/01/21/video-caroline-glick-shut-down-the-debate-with-this-bombshell-speech/ which I'm sure that you have seen, makes me feel so much better - as it's the truth! I wish I knew how to find either the transcript of her full comments or else the entire video of the same.
After they finish dividing up Israel (chas v'shalom), they are going to proclaim the unicorn their official animal. Rainbows are their symbol, and pixie dust will be handed out to all the parties to congratulate them on a job well done.
Then they will wish away world hungry (like Miss Universe does every year), and poof, world peace! Gotta love liberals who are always asleep, dreaming of a perfect world.
After they finish dividing Israel they will find their own countries also divided, since the process has already started.
Those people are NOT liberal, they just appropriated the term, just like 'Palestinians' appropriated their name, that has nothing to do with them.
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