Z0763 Israeli Settlements, American Pressure, and Peace 6-17-12
- Steven J. Rosen, JCPA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Mahmoud Abbas participated in 18 years of direct negotiations with seven Israeli governments, all without the settlements freeze that he now insists is an absolute precondition to begin even low-level talks.
President Obama’s failure to distinguish construction in east Jerusalem from settlement activity in the West Bank put him at odds with the Israeli consensus. No major party in Israel, and no significant part of the Jewish public, is willing to count the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem as “settlements” to be “frozen.”
President Obama’s failure to distinguish construction in east Jerusalem from settlement activity in the West Bank put him at odds with the Israeli consensus. No major party in Israel, and no significant part of the Jewish public, is willing to count the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem as “settlements” to be “frozen.”
http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/StrategyRosen-14jun12.pdf
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