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Inside the talks' failure: US officials open up
Nahum Barnea
Published: 02.05.14, 23:51
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61. Theater of the absurd
SK ,   Tel Aviv   (05.03.14)
I hope the US State Department is reading my comment... While the global environment has been difficult to navigate, I still think it is fair to say that on most substantive issues US foreign policy is at best amateurish. What is most troubling is how they have completely misread most of the major actors, not to mention the Palestinians. They see the world how they want it to be, rather than how it really is. Articles like this only make the world's superpower look pathetic.
62. outrageous lies and threats
C   (05.03.14)
the americans have lied when they uniquely blamed israel for the failure of the talks with the palestinians. now the americans are threatening israel with an all manner of punishment, from boycotts, to intifadas, to an american imposed plan on the jewish state, from borders, to jerusalem. obama treats israel as a vassal state rather than as a sovereign state.
63. Looking Forward - Kerry White Paper
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (05.04.14)
When Kerry's White Paper is published they the fun begins.
64. #60, Message: Obama is impeached soon and become powerless
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.04.14)
65. #33,19,23,29,46,55,et al (re:#26) Truth
solomon ,   bklyn   (05.04.14)
cannot be according to a vote. Read #26 History. Therein lies truth, not in any of your posts.
66. 63
CJK   (05.04.14)
are you planning to send in the marines?! do you really think that obama can impose his own plan on the sovereign jewish state of israel?! what do you think will happene if obama withholds american veto in the unsc?! what will happen if a new arab state is admitted to the un but without fixed territory, fixed population, no solution for jerusalem? obama cannot create a state and he cannot determine borders of a sovereign state unilaterally. his entire foreign policy has been a disaster.
67. 63, so what
CJK   (05.04.14)
obama cannot create a new arab state. he cannot unilaterally determine the borders of a sovereign state. he can only create chaos and mayhem as he has done so far.
68. Lack of an agreement
Lenny Plotkin ,   USA   (05.05.14)
So when all seemed clear that there was an agreement between Arafat and Barak, why did Arafat change his mind. Arafat's comment was that he did not want to have "tea " with Sadat. That means he did not want his people to kill him, like the Egyptians murdered Sadat. Any land that was once controlled by Muslims must inevitably be controlled by Muslims.In order to court public opinion Abbas will agree to anything up to the point where a hard fast agreement can be made. The Palestinians would agree to living in 2% of the land if they were sure that Israel would only accept them living in 1% of the land. When will those of us, living in the USA understand that as Westerners, we have a completely different mentality than the people who live in the Middle East. Instead of ramming our way of thinking into people who have no desire to think like us and never will, let us deal with the situation as it is.
69. Please learn to separate opinions from personal attacks
YK ,   Tooronto   (05.05.14)
I disagree with Barne'a's article and most of his opinions but he served (with me) at the reserve paratrooper division that captured Jerusalem in 67 and crossed the canal in 73 and the Baqa Valley in Lebanon in 82. In which division did you serve, and for how ling?
70. The Facts
Sandy ,   New York, NY   (05.06.14)
Israel released prisoners to the Palestinians and they refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.
71. # 58 Chaim Love ya man!!!!
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.09.14)
Preach Brother Preach!!!! ALWAYS BUILDING !!!!
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