tweakabelle -> RE: Israel still torturing children (1/31/2014 12:46:36 AM)
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A world away from the ugliness of Occupation, the peace process stutters along .... Pushed by US Sec of State Kerry, the talks are almost universally expected to fail. What happens then? Thomas Fried.man, writing in the NYT, has this take on the state of play between the parties: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/friedman-why-kerry-is-scary.html For Friedman, the current talks are the last chance for the lo:ng promised Two State Solution. Personally I feel that train has left long ago. But Friedman has a more optimistic take: "If the Palestinians and Israelis find a way to proceed with the Kerry plan, everything is still possible. Success is hardly assured, but it will prove that it’s not midnight yet. But if either or both don’t agree, Kerry would have to take his mission to its logical, fanatical conclusion and declare the end of the negotiated two-state solution. (If not, he loses his credibility.) If and when that happens, Israel, which controls the land, would have to either implement a unilateral withdrawal, live with the morally corrosive and globally isolating implications of a permanent West Bank occupation or design a new framework of one-state-for-two-people. So that’s where we are: Israelis and Palestinians need to understand that Kerry’s mission is the last train to a negotiated two-state solution. The next train is the one coming at them."
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