two years is the end of your cadente period, who he thinks he is fooling, the pali Israeli conflict is older than that and need longer time of solution, 2 years yeah right.

What Mitchell forgets is that Abbas needs to wait for elections in order to be able to bring anything to the table. His Mandate ended more than a year ago and nothing he signs will be acceptable to more than a small percentage of his "people" even if Israel agreed to 100% of his terms and ceased to exist. The 2 year card was played (and failed) by Clinton and Bush Jr. why does Obama think it will work for now? Talks are a long way from resuming and are even further from completion.

Obama has already ruined his credibility as an "honest broker". Any peace agreement will have to wait until the next American administration.

two years is pretty fair. long enough. and the US deserves this time. I shut up and wait two years.

There are two things that stand in the way. Israel's illegal colonies and their continuation. And American acquiescence in everything Israel does, no matter how egregiously against human rights that it is. The US is not an honest broker. President Obama has so far claimed he is, but he has yet to put teeth to that claim. Of course the US DOMESTIC political reality is that the new US health care plan has not yet passed but it will. And then it, FOREIGN POLICY reality, will be on. "Stuffed shirt" my foot. Do you folks really believe that President Barack Obama is not going to deliver real change? Better think again.

And should you or PBS or any of your Mission Impossible team be caught, we will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Your brain will self-destruct in 5 seconds, o never mind it already has.

"Israel has frozen most settlements for 10 months, although it is still building new homes in parts of east Jerusalem captured from Jordan in the 1967 war " Just "east Jerusalem"? Is this really continuity in your own reporting? Why are you excluding the thousands of housing starts excluded from the fake "freeze"? Why did you not include the non-freeze on "infrastructure"? Why did you not include the money allotted for what the world considers illegal colonies as compensation for the fake freeze? Without continuity in reporting, a country's narrative gets twisted beyond recognition. Yet another major PR problem for Israel. Outside, we can see this. Get someone outside and look in.

No Jewish leader has the right to abandon any part of the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel rightfully belongs only to the Jewish people. The notion of two states for two peoples in the land of Israel cannot be accepted as the land of Israel rightfully belongs only to the Jewish people and to divide our country would be an historic injustice. As it is well known, the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is not a territorial one. If it were a territorial conflict, it could have been solved a long time ago, by territorial concessions, which have been offered a number of times to the Arabs, and rejected every time… As to the legitimate rights of the Jewish people (3 parts): http://xrl.us/berwte

and it has nothing to do with Israel ceasing to exist. That is your paranoid imagination. The state of Israel has never clarified its borders. Please show them to me. No one has ever been able to do so. Ask them, look at the maps, where's the sovereign border? What are the Palestinians and the world at large supposed to recognize as sovereign Israel? Where does Israel end, and Palestine for the Arab Palestinians begin? And Eric? After all these decades of Palestinians being pretty damned patient in waiting to be able to indulge in their natural rights of self-determination - when do they get their rights?

It shouldn,t take more than 24 hours for the Arab/Muslim world to recognise Israel as a Jewish state just as it shouldn,t take more than 24 hours for Turkey to recognise an independent Kurdish state ,you,re still talking c-p Atilla ?

There are two major things that stand in the way,Hamas/Hezbollah and the Democrats in the USA sorry for you BBS.

You are wasting your time - and ours. Peace with the local Arabs, based on the so-called "two state solution" is not only unworkable, it is unachievable. Simply put, the local Arab population is incapable of organizing itself and presenting a representative and rational leadership with whom Israel can negotiate. They just can't do it; don't expect otherwise. The local Arab population is too radical and volatile; their sentiments are extreme and violent. Besides, the local Arab population knows that they are much better off under Israeli auspices, then they would be under Arab rule. They just can't come to admit that. The ultimate solution, however, is to have a single state in this region, with Israel incorporating all 1967 liberated lands.

How,s your brainwashed corrupt money mad George doing BBS the same nutcase who accepted thousands of barrels of oil from sanctions busting Saddam Hussein ,so the quesation is who,s paying him and how much?

Palestinians being pretty damned patient ,so who murdered the Israeli athletes in Munich ,who blew up dozens of Israeli busses in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem ,who bombed the Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires , who formed the PLO affiliated leftist fascist Arab killing machines of the RED army/brigade the Baader Meinhoff gang ,who hijacked a sea cruise ship and threw an American/Jewish paraplegic overboard whilst still in his wheelchair ,who has committed heinous crimes against Jews world wide under the banner of Islamic/Palestine ,your propaganda is nauseating as usual?

from the south side of Chicago who cannot and will not deliver anything. More important to him what the White Sox are doing.

This lady has really lost it ,when she says where does Israel end and Palestine begin.Palestine /Jordan as mandated by the League of Nations in 1948 ,notwithstanding the fact that the Hashemites are occupying the Palestine homeland ,as for self determination ,well get rid of Nasrallah,Haniyeh,Meshaal A bass gather in the exiles after booting out the Hashemites and don,texpect the Jews/Israel to help you as we already have our homeland and will be celebrating 62 years of statehood soon while your ilk wallow in selfpity ,hatred,jealousy fundamentalism ,religious bigotry ,violence etc,.

I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. In 50 years from now the PA will still be wanting every piece of our holy land.

agree then mb sanctions from the EU and US should follow. I image loads of deluded people here will say that they dont need anybody and israel is responsable for producing several important items but its just nonsense as no nation can survive isolated and every product made in israel can b made somewhere else. the soon israel realizes this the better

Many talkbackers especially those in Israel need (as a supporter of Israel , I mean need) to consider the ramification of "appearing" to be the obstacle to the two states, which is going to happen, regardless of Israeli wishes, just as the Israeli state was recognised without the "consent" of the Arabs living there. Should such a UNSC res. be called, who believes it would include Ariel for instance? What would it mean for the kotel and so on, get to table to secure the best possible deal before it's too late.

I watched the Lebanese Mitchell on TV last night and could see him almost salivating with delight as he pondered the possivbility of Israel ceasing to exist.

The "patient" Palestinian Arabs, waiting for their "rights" are in the present pickle because they rejected a Jewish neighbor with ANY borders in 1948,launching a war they lost, and famously AGAIN in 1968 ("no recognition of Israel, no negotiations, no peace"). It has NEVER been about borders. Israel accepted the 1948 border in 1948, accepted the 1967 border in 1967. Obviously, they can't be blamed for refusing to let the Arabs have a "do-over" after they keep losing wars of aggression. Germany lost land after WW2 to compensate victims, who won. WW2 was not a border dispute,it was a genocide dispute. Germany did not recognize the rights of Jews, Poles, Russians with ANY borders. How the "Palestinians" think to this day. "Borders" are a ruse, they still loudly reject a Jewish State, as the UN demanded 62 years ago. Deal is now Gaza and 75-80% of the W. Bank. Take it or leave it.

The borders of Israel have been defined for them by God. The problem is they have not returned to Him and claimed His promise to them, .and their rightful promised land

One day, everyone will stand in front of the Almighty God of Israel. Are you prepared to answer his question about what you have done to bless Israel? While some of you might not accept the fact that Israel is still GODs chosen people, just consider what "if" it were true. There is still time, but it is running out fast. Just look around what is happening in the world today... wake up!