United Nations – Two-state Israeli-Palestinian Solution Slipping Away: U.N. Official

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    A man holds the Palestinian flag during a so-called Israeli-Palestinian Freedom March, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 03 June 2016. EPAUnited Nations – A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away, the U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace warned on Sunday, after both sides shrugged off criticism by international mediators.

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    A report released on Friday by the so-called Quartet – United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – called on Israel to stop its policy of building settlements on occupied land and restricting Palestinian development.

    Israeli policy “is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution,” it said. It also urged the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, take steps to end incitement to violence against Israelis, condemn “all acts of terrorism” and do more to combat them.

    “The Quartet report sounds an alarm bell that we are on a dangerous slope towards a one-state reality that is incompatible with the national aspirations of both peoples,” wrote Nickolay Mladenov, U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, in a commentary emailed to journalists on Sunday.

    He also addressed Palestinian and Israeli criticism of the Quartet report. “Who will make the argument that more cannot be done to end incitement?” he asked. “Can anyone question that illegal settlements … are not undermining the prospect for a two-state solution?”

    Israel welcomed parts of the Quartet report but signaled no change in settlement building, saying the document “perpetuates the myth that Israeli construction in the West Bank is an obstacle to peace”.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is at the heart of the impasse.

    A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed disappointment that the Quartet did not call for full Israeli withdrawal to lines that existed before the Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a 1967 war.

    The Palestinians want an independent state in those areas and in the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave controlled since 2007 by the Islamist Hamas group. Peace talks collapsed in April 2014 and Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged in recent months.

    Mladenov appealed to Israeli and Palestinian leaders to implement the report’s recommendations, offering the help of the international community to do so.

    “I urge leaders on both sides not to miss this opportunity,” he wrote.


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    7 years ago

    A bunch of imbecilic morons. The Palis have not a shred of the fundamental characteristics needed to govern. They are not just irresponsible, but they do nothing to care for their own. They have made terror their number one mission, and cannot even create businesses or industries to become productive – despite the influx of funding provided for that. They really have nothing, except the bloodlust to spill Jewish blood. They cannot negotiate, for they are not verbal. They cannot govern, for they have no leaders. They cannot produce, for they have no desire. At least animals in the jungle hunt for food. These savages hunt for criminal, immoral, and cult based passion. There is only one sensible future for them. Exterminate them.

    7 years ago

    Nebech these people have no Shidduch crises decreasing their numbers like us. We can learn something from them and that’s no being so picky on whom to marry.

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    ConsiderThis
    7 years ago

    My thoughts upon reading the headline: “Finally some good news!”

    7 years ago

    Muslims are bloodthirsty, and essentially non-verbal. Negotiations with them is futile. Even they wish to not engage in diplomacy. So why have they come to the table? Few reasons. International pressure. But the main reason is that they use the opportunity to demand concessions from Israel while never, ever giving anything. This saves them the money and lives from engaging in terror or war. So easy. And the bimbo leaders in the UN, the EU, the Quartet, and especially the terror lovers in the White House are completely bought into that process. Obama never demanded a concession, not even a cessation of terror. But to take from Israel, he is the first voice. May all these haters of Israel become victims of terror.

    bennyt
    bennyt
    7 years ago

    The Palis don’t want a two-state solution; they want a final solution just like Hitler (yemach sh’mo) wanted. Even if the brilliant leaders of the State of Israel gave up 99% of Israel’s land as another of the many good gestures it has already unsuccessfully made in the name of peace, that 1% which we would be left with would still drive the Palis and the rest of the Jew-hating world crazy.