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Op-ed: It’s been a while since White House had to produce Mideastern peace summit
Smadar Peri
Published 08/25/10, 11:08
Finally they came up with a reason for us to party. Dress up, do your hair, and make yourselves comfortable in front of the television.
Wait for next Wednesday, to see the touching photograph courtesy of the White House spokesman: Six men in dark suits, in line with protocol, smiling from ear to ear.
There’s no need to explain the photo, as everyone knows each other: Three Muslims, two Christians, and one Jew. A king (Jordan,) two presidents (Obama and Mubarak,) a leader without a state (Abbas,) a prime minister (Netanyahu, who cannot and does not intend to give Abbas a state,) and a former PM (Tony Blair, the only one who will maintain his good haircut even if the event ends with no results.”)
Maybe it would nonetheless be an optimistic breeze? It’s been a while since the White House had to produce a peace summit. However, nobody dreams that Obama is actually going to deliver a Palestinian state on the lawn.
Should we not see any last minute changes, Mubarak will arrive in Washington in order to show that he’s present as required, and to ensure American support for his son, Gamal.
His Highness Abdullah will arrive in a bid to elicit a pledge that the mess in Iraq won’t flood Jordan with millions of refugees,
and that the mess expected in the territories after the collapse of negotiations will not scare off masses of Palestinians to the Kingdom on the other bank of the River. It’s hardest to be envious of the Jordanian king, who is being suffocated on both ends.
Next: Abbas will show up to ensure that he is not left alone with Bibi in the framework of direct talks.
It’s not only Hamas that is breathing down his neck. Abbas’ relationship with his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, is reminiscent of the Rabin- Peres relationship at the height of their conflict.
The common concern: Iran
A Palestinian state? Don’t make the sextet laugh.
A state can only be established in the West Bank, only with settlers inside it, only with the IDF remaining in the area, and only with an international force. Netanyahu is nowhere near agreeing to east Jerusalem being the Palestinian state’s capital; Abbas is nowhere near renouncing the right of return.
On the face of it, there’ s a tight timetable.
Obama will surely announce (so what?) that an independent Palestinian state will be established a year from now.
However, the electricity reactor inaugurated in Bushehr over the weekend may also change its spots in a year, and that’s a much more pressing issue.
Sit down with any one sextet member and ask what truly bothers him, and you will immediately find a common denominator: The Iranian ayatollahs, dormant terror cell that may awaken at once, and the prospect of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards dangerously creeping into more or less sane regions. Ask the Saudi king: The Iranian creeping process is alarming him, with missiles that may come from the skies and assassinations on the ground, just like in Lebanon.
So what will they nonetheless whine about around the table? Hezbollah, for example, preoccupies the security agencies of Jordan (Aqaba,) Egypt (Sinai,) and Ramallah (West Bank recruitment efforts.) There’s also Bashar Assad, who at any moment can bring Hamas down.
It will also be possible to utter slogans about economic cooperation; someone (Jordan’s king) will surely try to breathe life into the Arab peace initiative, which promises full peace and normal ties. Now you made Bibi laugh again. With nothing to give Abbas, Netanyahu is already shifting his attention to Assad, offering him a ticket to Washington and the opportunity to sit at the same table, with the same host, in Abbas’ chair. Whatever Abbas gets, Bibi will promise the same to the Syrian president.
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US wants agreement now, peace later
White House document reveals American preparations for Israel-Palestinian talks: President Obama to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah, call for painful concessions: permanent agreement to be signed within one year, implemented within 10 years.
Shimon Shiffer
Published 08/27/10, 1:23/ Israel News
The Obama administration plans to present Israel and the Palestinian Authority with a new outline aimed at ending the Middle East conflict.
The Yedioth Ahronoth daily has learned that the Americans will pressure the parties to sign a framework agreement for a permanent settlement within one year, but that the agreement itself would be implemented within 10 years.
The American administration plans to invest every effort to guarantee that the direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which will be launched officially next Thursday, will end with an agreement rather than with a crisis, as in previous negotiations.
US President Barack Obama, whose approval rating has hit a new low, is interested in marking his first success in the Middle East, in light of the ongoing bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This time, Obama plans to get into the thick of things himself. Daniel Shapiro, the National Security Council’s top Middle East expert, told the leaders of the American Jewish organizations that the president planned to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the coming year.
During his visit, Obama will try to convince the two sides to support painful concessions for the sake of peace.
Several days ago, leaders of the American Jewish organizations held a conference call with three of the top officials determining the Obama administration’s Middle East policy – Shapiro, Dennis Ross and David Hale, deputy of US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
Ross has been involved in all the talks between Israel and the Palestinians since the Oslo Accords. He is considered today Obama’s No. 1 expert on Middle Eastern affairs.
Gesture from Arab states
Yedioth Ahronoth has obtained the protocol summarizing the conference call, written by White House officials.
The document provides a fascinating peek into the administration’s plans in the near future.
According to the American plan, the Israeli and Palestinian negotiation teams would hold hectic talks in a bid to reach a framework agreement within a year. The intensive talks would be held in isolated sites, so as to allow the teams to calmly discuss the core issues of the permanent agreement: Jerusalem’s future, the borders, the settlements and the refugees.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would be required to hold frequent meetings in order to solve concrete problems and advance the negotiations’ stages.
If the talks reach a deadlock, American officials would intervene and attempt to bridge between the sides.
In addition, the US would try to convince the Arab states to offer goodwill gestures to Israel and influence the Palestinians to compromise.
The framework agreement aimed at ending the conflict would be signed within a year. From that moment on, the agreement would be implemented gradually over a period of several years.
Ross estimated in the conference call that many elements would try to sabotage the talks. “Our challenge would be to guarantee their success,” he stated.
The Jewish leaders asked
him what could be learned from the mistakes which caused the previous attempts to solve the conflict to fail. I learned that we must not accept a situation in which the parties say one thing inside the room and something else outside the room, he replied.
In other words, the administration would not regard favorably a situation in which Israeli and Palestinian officials “blast” each other outside the meeting room.
“Can Netanyahu reach an agreement which would gain political support in Israel?” the Jewish leaders asked. Hale replied that Netanyahu had promised he would be able to do that. We view him as a strong partner committed to he process, he said.
Lieberman refuses to attend summit
Senior diplomatic officials in Israel have revealed, however, that Netanyahu has yet to prepare a firm stand ahead of the direct talks. The government has yet to agree on the outline for the permanent agreement, no to mention the settlement construction freeze.
“Bibi will barely escape Washington,” a senior st
ate official estimated.
Minister Dan Meridor, backed by Netanyahu, is trying to convince Ross and Shapiro to agree to the outline he suggested ahead of the end of the settlement construction moratorium on September 26: The building freeze would only continue in isolated settlements, but construction would be resumed in the settlement blocs expected to remain under Israel’s control. Only one minister, Ehud Barak, has expressed his support for this idea so far.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman believes the Americans should be informed that the construction will continue without any restrictions in settlement blocs, and will be renewed in isolated settlements according to the residents’ natural growth.
The Palestinians, on their part, have already clarified their demands ahead of the direct talks, the first one being the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
Upon the start of the negotiations, the Palestinians will demand that Israel withdraw from the northern Dead Sea as part of a gesture before continuing the talks. The PA is expected to agree to a land exchange with Israel: In return for 3.9% of the West Bank area where the settlement blocs are located, the Palestinians expect to receive lands in the Negev.
Meanwhile, Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that Lieberman rejected the prime minister’s request to join him on his trip to Washington ahead of Thursday’s summit. According to reliable sources, the foreign minister told Netanyahu he would not attend celebrations he has no faith in.
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