All Journal Posts Tagged 'mitchell' (17)

US ready to give up on direct Israeli-Palestinian talks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to arrive in Israel on Saturday night for her first official visit since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in. Although Clinton comes with the stated goal of resuming talks between Israelis and Palestinians, there are indications that the Americans are getting ready to give up on that hope. In light of the wide as ever gaps between the Palestinians and the Israelis, voices are growing within the Oba… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 28, 2009 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

Fatah demands settlement freeze before talks

The Palestinian Fatah party has told West Bank constable Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the movement, that he better not resume peace talks unless and until Israel totally freezes home building for Jews in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, a senior Fatah member said Wednesday. Fatah believes that only Arabs should be allowed to build homes there. Fatah's position is designed to help Abbas resist American pressure to begin negotiations with Israel, even though Israeli… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 30, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

After Mitchell-Netanyahu meeting, progress but no deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell met for four hours in London Wednesday. Afterward, they report "progress" and said that they hoped Israel and the Palestinians would begin negotiations on a comprehensive peace agreement. A joint statement by the US and Israel called the meeting "good" and said "both sides need to take practical steps towards furthering the peace." It was agreed that Netanyahu's representatives, special envoy Yitzha… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on August 26, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Despite positive spin, US and Israel far from settlement deal

Although papers in Israel and abroad have reported "significant progress" in negotiations over a US demand for an Israeli settlement freeze, the details of briefings to Israeli ministers indicated that gaps remain wide. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's special representatives, Yitzhak Molcho and Mike Herzog, returning from meetings with senior US administration officials, briefed the cabinet's narrow forum on a possible compromise with the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on August 23, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Netanyahu takes dictation from Obama, utters "two states" formula

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's use of the words "two states for two peoples" at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting was "most certainly" the result of US pressure, senior diplomatic officials told the Jerusalem Post Sunday. For the first time, on the eve of yet another meeting between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Mideast envoy George Mitchell, Netanyahu uttered the "magic formula" Washington had been urging him to say for months. The Palestinians have condi… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on July 6, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Netanyahu-Mitchell meeting canceled over settlement spat

Following the declaration by a State Department official that the US demand to stop settlements extends to east Jerusalem, a long-planned meeting of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Barack Obama's Mideast envoy George Mitchell has been canceled. According to diplomatic officials, the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 7:30pm — 8 Comments

US: Jewish breeding, building must end in Jerusalem too

Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are included in the US demand that Israel halt "settlement" construction, including for natural growth, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told The Jerusalem Post during a press briefing on Monday. "We're talking about all settlement activity, yes, in the area across the line," he said, referring to neighborhoods in Jerusal… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 23, 2009 at 8:30am — 16 Comments

Mitchell: Jews in Judea must stop having babies

George Mitchell said the United States continues to demand that Israel halt "natural growth" of settlements. And that doesn't mean just no no new houses, apartments, schools or kindergartens. That means no new babies. In a press briefing Tuesday at the State Department, the Obama administration's special envoy to the Middle East called "highly inaccurate" an Israeli newspaper report that the Obama administration would allow "natural growth" of settlements. Mitchell, of Leb… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 19, 2009 at 2:30pm — 10 Comments

US: The hell with Shalit -- give Hamas a free pass

The Obama Administration has stepped up pressure on Israel regarding the Gaza Strip, officially protesting Gaza policy three weeks ago and demanding more liberal policy on the border crossings. U.S. and Israeli sources say the note was followed by a verbal communication clarifying that the Obama administration believes that Israel's linkage of the case of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit and the opening of the crossings was "not constructive." The note was delivered to Israel… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 18, 2009 at 8:00am — 9 Comments

Obama keeps trying to subvert legitimacy of settlements

Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the world this week that Israel will not cease building within existing towns and communities in Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank"), U.S. President Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks differently. Obama, speaking to reporters at the White House during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi on Monday, said that Israel’s “continuation of settlements” is illegal: “I've also made very clear that… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 17, 2009 at 6:00pm — 5 Comments

Bibi tells US there will be no stop to growth in settlements

US special envoy George Mitchell, during meetings that included four hours with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, was told that Israel would not bring all settlement construction to a complete halt, and that there would be no limits on "natural growth within communities in Judea and Samaria, even though this is the Obama Administration's emphatically stated position. One senior Israeli official said that there appeared to be some "convergence" between the sides, and they… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 10, 2009 at 2:30pm — 10 Comments

Obama rolls out new attitude to Israel: "tough love"

Although President Barack Hussein Obama said that "I don't think we have to change strong support for Israel," he added that "Part of being a good friend is being honest, and I think there have been times where we are not as honest as we should be about the fact that the current direction, the current trajectory in the region is profoundly negative, not only for Israeli interests but also US interests. And that's part of a new dialogue that I'd like to see encouraged in the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 2, 2009 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments

Israel enraged by Palestinian "waiting game" comments

Senior Israeli officials were enraged by reports of Palestinian Authority comments during President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to Washington. PA officials said the leadership is just waiting for US pressure to bring down the Netanyahu government, and had no interest in meeting with the Israeli government until it succumbs. "It will take a couple of years" for American pressure to force Netanyahu from office, the Washington Post… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on May 31, 2009 at 9:30am — 5 Comments

Israel: US "not fair" in rejecting all Bush understandings

Tensions between Washington and Jerusalem are growing after the U.S. administration demands that Israel completely freeze construction in all settlements, Haaretz reported. A senior Israeli official said "we're disappointed" after Tuesday's round of meetings in London with George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's Mideast. "All of the understandings reached during the [George W.] Bush administration are worth nothing." Another official said the U.S. administration is rebuf… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on May 31, 2009 at 9:24am — 4 Comments

Israel: Two-state talks only after Arabs accepts a Jewish one

The latest diplomatic line of the Israeli government puts the onus on the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Until now, they have steadfastly refused to do so, and there is no prospect that they will do so anytime soon. To do so would be to abandon their goal of subverting Israel and their plan to destroy it by stages both through territorial concessions, immigration infiltration, and demographic inundation. "Israel expects the Palestinians to fir… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on April 17, 2009 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

Peres to Mitchell: Talk of strike on Iran is unfounded

Talk of a possible Israeli strike in Iran is "unfounded" and the solution to the nuclear standoff with Teheran is "not military," President Shimon Peres said Thursday during a meeting with special US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell. Peres said that confronting the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon required broad international cooperation, adding that the world must examine whether dialogue with the Islamic republic was authentic or merely "a bluff." Peres's sta… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on April 16, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Palestine - Obama Quicksteps Into The Quicksand

America's Ambassador to Jordan - Robert Beecroft - lost no time in maintaining the illusion of momentum created by America's Special Envoy to the Middle East - George Mitchell - following Mitchell's departure from the region last week after his first visit there as President Obama's nominee. Ambassador Beecroft gave a revealing interview to the Jordan Times on 5 February - coinciding with a report by Sandy Tolan in The Christian Science Monitor on 4 February - that the Roadmap negotiations to c… Continue

Added by david singer on February 6, 2009 at 8:38am — 1 Comment

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