U.S. negotiators blame Israel for collapse of talks
U.S. negotiators said Israel’s settlement policy was the primary reason the peace talks failed.
U.S. negotiators said Israel’s settlement policy was the primary reason the peace talks failed.
Israeli and Palestinian envoys on Tuesday took advantage of a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Middle East to publicly blame each other for the latest breakdown in the fragile peace negotiations as the deadline for a deal expired.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a roomful of world leaders that Israel could become “an apartheid state” if peace talks fail.
With the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations floundering, it may, perhaps, be time to consider an entirely different kind of two-state solution. One that involves the State of Texas.
President Obama said it may be time for a pause in Middle East peacemaking in the wake of a breakdown in Israel-Palestinian talks.
The Palestinians would extend the current peace negotiations if Israel agrees to a three-month settlement construction freeze during which the sides would agree on the borders of a future Palestinian state.
Israel’s Air Force bombed three sites in Gaza in response to attacks from Palestinians in the coastal strip.
A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ended without an agreement to resume peace talks, a Palestinian official said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israeli government officials to halt cooperation with their Palestinian counterparts.
Israel is “deeply disappointed” that Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to lay primary blame on Israel for the crisis in the U.S.-brokered Middle East peace talks, an unnamed Israeli official said.