October 13, 2010
PULL THE PIN ALREADY:
Palestinians consider Mideast talks trump card: declaring statehood (Howard LaFranchi, October 13, 2010, CS Monitor)
Could the Palestinians get the attention of the Israelis – and the international community’s support – by leapfrogging negotiations and simply declaring a state?That is one option Palestinian leaders are contemplating as they mull over how to respond to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest proposal for keeping the Obama administration’s iteration of peace talks going: Israel would agree to extend a partial moratorium on settlement construction for 60 days in exchange for the Palestinians’ recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
The fact of Palestinian statehood precedes the negotiations anyway.
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