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Kerry seeks to build Arab support for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Reuters ^ | 4-29-2013 | Arshad Mohammed

Posted on 04/29/2013 6:43:15 PM PDT by haffast

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry met a group of senior Arab officials on Monday as he sought to build regional support for any fresh push for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Kerry has made no secret of his hope to revive peace talks, which broke down in 2010, but it remains unclear whether U.S. President Barack Obama will decide to back a major U.S. effort.

In convening the group, Kerry is trying to ensure that a new peace process would have the backing of the Arab states, who, if they were to offer Israel a comprehensive peace, hold a powerful card that could provide an incentive for Israeli compromises.

After meeting the Bahraini, Egyptian, Jordanian and Qatari foreign ministers as well as with officials from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League, Kerry and the Arab states voiced support for a 2002 Arab League peace initiative.

"I underscored the Arab League's very important role ... by reaffirming the Arab Peace Initiative here this afternoon," Kerry told reporters after the talks at Blair House, the U.S. president's guest house. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attended part of the meeting.

The Arab League proposal offered full Arab recognition of Israel if it gave up land seized in a 1967 war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees.

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Israel objects to key points, including a return to 1967 borders, the inclusion of Arab East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state and the return Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.

"The Arab League delegation understands that peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis is ... a strategic choice for the Arab states," Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who serves as Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, told reporters.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arableague; egypt; gas; israel; jordan; lebanon; palestine; peaceandsecurity; pipeline; qatar; saudi; waronterror
".....but it remains unclear whether U.S. President Barack Obama will decide to back a major U.S. effort."

So what is it exactily that O'Biden, Kerry, Hagel, and Dear Leader been doing since February? Trips, passing money out like candy. Let's see your A game Mr. President:

Legacy: "Da Dribbler"

1 posted on 04/29/2013 6:43:15 PM PDT by haffast
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To: haffast

Oddly enough there doesn’t seem to be a mention of
the palestinians...


2 posted on 04/29/2013 6:48:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: haffast

do you suppose he can get the Muslim countries to recognize Israel’s right to exist??


3 posted on 04/29/2013 6:53:26 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: haffast
Botox or a fist? You decide. I'm guessing botox injection bruising. He's giving obama a run for the antichrist position on peace.
4 posted on 04/29/2013 6:56:12 PM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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“Ouch: Kerry’s office said he sustained the injury when he was hit in the face with a hockey stick during a game with friends and family over the holidays”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090891/John-Kerry-black-eyes-Senator-shows-injuries-breaking-nose-hockey-match.html#ixzz2RuT12Vdn

It was “hockey”. I’m thinking alcohol involved. Fall down go boom. But I wasn’t invited.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 7:32:45 PM PDT by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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Kerry’s an incompetent idiot. He managed to inflict a VERY minor “wound” on himself when, while stationed at Cam Rahn Bay in Vietnam, he fired an M79 grenade launcher. The grenade hit a rock too close to him and, when it exploded on contact, caused him to be hit with a tiny (”rice grain size” according to the corpsman who saw him when Kerry went for treatment) piece of shrapnel. This self inflicted rice sized piece of shrapnel barely pierced his skin (like a small splinter) and was removed by the corpsman with tweezers. For this self-inflicted scratch, Kerry put himself in for the purple heart.

I hold this poor excuse for a man in VERY low regard.


6 posted on 04/29/2013 8:10:04 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: haffast

Somebody desperately wants a Nobel. Sorry, Jean, it ain’t gonna be you.


7 posted on 04/29/2013 9:00:19 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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