US signals more optimism at reviving Mideast talks
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is sounding optimistic that it can restart Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that stalled only weeks after their US launch in September.
But analysts fear that the administration — even if it manages to revive the talks — lacks a strategy to guide the two sides to a settlement of the core issues by its stated goal of September next year.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making a “serious effort” by considering a new settlement freeze aimed at reviving the talks.
“This is a very promising development,” Clinton told reporters Monday, a day after the Israeli leader briefed his Cabinet about a fresh moratorium on settlements in the West Bank.
Clinton declined to provide details but noted that US diplomats were “working intensively to create the conditions for the resumption of the negotiations.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101117com3.html
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