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Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to
end the negotiations with Israel unless it freezes construction in Judea
and Samaria.Abbas’s threats came during his meeting
on Monday with Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon. “I will put the keys
on the table and turn to international organizations,” he declared
during that meeting."The only way we will agree to extend the talks is if Netanyahu announces a settlement freeze and the release of other prisoners beyond the next scheduled release,” Abbas told Galon.This is not the first that Abbas has imposed preconditions on talks with Israel and threatened that unless all these preconditions are met, there will be no peace.It is also not the first time that the PA threatens that if peace talks fail, Israel will go to the United Nations and unilaterally seek statehood recognition there.After Monday’s meeting, Galon wrote on Facebook that she had told
Abbas that Meretz has “an unwavering commitment” to the peace process.“I told him that our commitment is backed by 76% of the Israeli
public and 77 Knesset members who support a peace agreement, and what is
needed right now is a determined and courageous leadership that will continue the negotiations that it began,” she wrote.
Galon went on to blame the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the fact that peace talks were not advancing.“The problem is that instead of making new and courageous choices about peace Netanyahu prefers to make old and cowardly decisions on settlement construction,” she charged. “Ironically, just as Netanyahu's meeting with Obama began, a report by the Central Bureau of Statistics indicated that this year a record was set in the number of new homes in the settlements - a crazy increase of 125% last year(!).”“These, my friends, are the distorted priorities of the Netanyahu government. One hand builds settlements and the other hand flies to Obama to tell him stories about peace,” wrote Galon.Meanwhile on Monday, Netanyahu told President Barack Obama that over the past 20 years, Israel has made every concession possible to the PA, while the PA has responded with terrorism."In the 20 years since Israel embarked upon the [Oslo] peace treaty,” Netanyahu said, “Israel made great efforts to obtain peace – we evicted cities, we freed prisoners, and when you look at what we got in return – you see thousands of missiles on our cities, and suicide terrorists.”"Israel is doing its part and the Palestinians are not,” he stated. “And that is the truth, and the Nation of Israel knows it is the truth, because they live it.”
The Syrian regime on Monday accused Israel of being involved in the ongoing fighting in the country, Kol Yisrael radio reports.Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media adviser to Syrian President
Bashar Al-Assad, claimed that Israel was sending fighters to help the
rebels fighting to oust Assad.Speaking to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network, which is
affiliated with Hezbollah, Shaaban said that Damascus has information
indicating that there were undercover agents among the wounded Syrians
recently treated by Israel.She further claimed that Israeli officers are operating in Syria and monitoring the fighting in the war-torn country.
Shaaban also said, in reference to last week’s airstrike near the Syria-Lebanon border that was attributed to Israel, that Israel is using weapons shipments as an excuse to attack Syria and Lebanon.This is not the first time that Syria has accused Israel of taking part in the war in the country, despite Israel having more than once clarified that it is not a part of the war and that it does not take sides in the fighting.Assad himself told an Argentinean newspaper a few months ago that Israel is assisting the rebels fighting to topple his regime.
“Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways,” he claimed. “Firstly it gives them logistical support, and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them."The Syrian opposition, however, has claimed the exact opposite, that Israel was collaborating with Iran and Hezbollah to keep Assad in power.Last week’s airstrike along the Syria-Lebanon border reportedly targeted missiles that are able to carry warheads heavier and more dangerous than almost all of Hezbollah's current massive arsenal.The IDF declined to officially comment on the alleged airstrike, but an Israeli security source confirmed to the Reuters news agency that there has been "unusually intense air force activity in the north", referring to Lebanon.A day later, an unnamed official told Time magazine that Israel was behind the airstrike.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remained elusive on the topic, saying, "We are doing everything that is necessary in order to defend the security of Israel."Lebanon has filed a complaint to the United Nations against Israel over the airstrikes, saying they were a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which brought an end to the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Abbas: Freeze Construction or Else...
PA
Chairman threatens to end peace talks and turn to international
institutions unless Israel freezes construction in Judea and Samaria.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/4/2014, 3:12 AM-Israelnationalnews
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-Flash 90
Galon went on to blame the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the fact that peace talks were not advancing.“The problem is that instead of making new and courageous choices about peace Netanyahu prefers to make old and cowardly decisions on settlement construction,” she charged. “Ironically, just as Netanyahu's meeting with Obama began, a report by the Central Bureau of Statistics indicated that this year a record was set in the number of new homes in the settlements - a crazy increase of 125% last year(!).”“These, my friends, are the distorted priorities of the Netanyahu government. One hand builds settlements and the other hand flies to Obama to tell him stories about peace,” wrote Galon.Meanwhile on Monday, Netanyahu told President Barack Obama that over the past 20 years, Israel has made every concession possible to the PA, while the PA has responded with terrorism."In the 20 years since Israel embarked upon the [Oslo] peace treaty,” Netanyahu said, “Israel made great efforts to obtain peace – we evicted cities, we freed prisoners, and when you look at what we got in return – you see thousands of missiles on our cities, and suicide terrorists.”"Israel is doing its part and the Palestinians are not,” he stated. “And that is the truth, and the Nation of Israel knows it is the truth, because they live it.”
Kerry: US will not allow the West Bank to become Gaza
Secretary of state suggests that Arab neighbors have promised to invest millions in Israel if peace is achieved
March 4, 2014, 3:39 am
5-The times of Israel
A day after his boss launched a
verbal attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement policy,
US Secretary of State John Kerry offered a more moderate tone on the
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks during his address to the AIPAC Policy
Conference Monday evening.In
a speech that never once mentioned the settlements that US President
Barack Obama criticized during an interview on the eve of his meeting
with Netanyahu, Kerry instead assured attendees that “we will never let
the West Bank turn into another Gaza.”
After Israel pulled all its troops and
citizens out of Gaza in 2005, Hamas overran the coastal strip, turning
it into a launching ground for rockets designed to harm Israeli
civilians.Kerry’s
speech came hours after Netanyahu and Obama held a bilateral meeting in
Washington in which the two discussed the peace process, as well as
other regional concerns.Kerry warned that a peace agreement “will take
hard work and hard choices on both sides,” but promised that “America
will be there every day of week, every step of the way.”
He did, however, mention that “ending the
conflict means ending the incitement,” a key demand that Israel has
repeatedly made of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.Abbas, said Kerry, “knows the great benefits
of peace, and the great cost of failure.” He added that, in talks with
the leader of a “very wealthy” regional neighbor of Israel’s, Kerry had
been assured that regional investment in Israel, should peace be
achieved with the Palestinians, would contribute significantly to
Israel’s economy.Kerry arrived at the conference almost a hour
behind schedule, but was greeted enthusiastically with a standing
ovation. Activists held cameras in the air, hoping to snap a picture of
the secretary of state.“AIPAC’s work is in the best traditions of
American democracy and I thank you for practicing it,” Kerry
congratulated activists in the opening minutes of his speech. “These
democratic values are stamped in the DNA of the United States and
Israel.“Today as Israel faces serious challenges to
her future it is America that will stand by her side,” Kerry reassured
the crowd, but was greeted only by polite applause. “It is a matter of
fact,” he argued, that under Obama “there has been a complete unmatched
commitment to Israel’s security.”Obama, Kerry
continued, “is committed to using the full force of our diplomacy on
both the peace process and on preventing a nuclear Iran.”Syria Claims: Israel Sending Fighters to Help Rebels
Assad's adviser claims that Israel is sending fighters and officers to help the rebels fighting to oust Assad.
By Elad Benari-First Publish: 3/4/2014, 4:44 AM-Israelnationalnews
Bashar Al-Assad-AFP photo
Shaaban also said, in reference to last week’s airstrike near the Syria-Lebanon border that was attributed to Israel, that Israel is using weapons shipments as an excuse to attack Syria and Lebanon.This is not the first time that Syria has accused Israel of taking part in the war in the country, despite Israel having more than once clarified that it is not a part of the war and that it does not take sides in the fighting.Assad himself told an Argentinean newspaper a few months ago that Israel is assisting the rebels fighting to topple his regime.
“Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways,” he claimed. “Firstly it gives them logistical support, and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them."The Syrian opposition, however, has claimed the exact opposite, that Israel was collaborating with Iran and Hezbollah to keep Assad in power.Last week’s airstrike along the Syria-Lebanon border reportedly targeted missiles that are able to carry warheads heavier and more dangerous than almost all of Hezbollah's current massive arsenal.The IDF declined to officially comment on the alleged airstrike, but an Israeli security source confirmed to the Reuters news agency that there has been "unusually intense air force activity in the north", referring to Lebanon.A day later, an unnamed official told Time magazine that Israel was behind the airstrike.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remained elusive on the topic, saying, "We are doing everything that is necessary in order to defend the security of Israel."Lebanon has filed a complaint to the United Nations against Israel over the airstrikes, saying they were a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which brought an end to the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Ukraine casts shadow over US-Israel talks on Iran
Watching developments in Crimea, some officials ponder its meaning for stopping Tehran’s nuclear program
March 4, 2014, 2:28 am
2-The Times of Israel
“He’s asking us to trust him.
Now we’re watching Ukraine and wondering,” a senior member of the
Israeli government told The Times of Israel on Monday, speaking about US
President Barack Obama’s response to the Russian incursion in the
Crimea this week.The
official noted that the United States has a defense agreement with
Ukraine, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum signed by President Bill Clinton
and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, which affirms that “The United
States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to
Ukraine…to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing
borders of Ukraine.”The Israeli skepticism mirrors criticism of the Obama administration from some domestic critics.The Ukraine crisis “is directly related to
what happens in the Middle East,” Senator John McCain (R-AZ) told the
AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington on Tuesday. The crisis “is the
ultimate result of a feckless foreign policy where nobody believes in
America’s strength anymore,” charged McCain.That message resonates with Israeli political leaders.
“There’s a limit to what the president [Obama]
can ask of us if America isn’t willing to stand by its promises,” the
Israeli official said.But that concern, while it reflects continued
skepticism over American dependability on the world stage on the part of
much of the Israeli political leadership, is not necessarily shared by
defense officials. One senior Israeli defense official said the American
equivocation on Ukraine was understandable.“We shouldn’t be too quick to apply lessons
from Ukraine to Israel,” said the official on Monday. “Crimea has been
an overriding strategic imperative for Russia for centuries. They have a
military base there. So what’s America going to do? Send troops?”That’s a very different situation from the Israel-Iran standoff, the official added.McCain, too, acknowledged the lack of a
military option.”I have to be very honest with you,” he told the
pro-Israel lobby Tuesday. “There is not a military option that can be
exercised now. But the most powerful nation in the world should have
plenty of options,” he insisted, calling for personal and economic
sanctions to be levied against Russia and its leaders.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in
Washington Tuesday for talks with Obama over the Iranian nuclear issue
and US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.The visit is marked by increasing tensions
between the two leaders, with the American leader openly chastising the
Israeli government over West Bank settlement construction and the slow
pace of negotiations, while the Netanyahu government has vociferously
protested US-led nuclear talks between Western powers and Iran.
US, EU struggle to rally against Putin
Western countries are alarmed by Russia’s military moves in Ukraine, but their options are limitied
March 4, 2014, 12:59 am
1-The Times of Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US and
major allies strained on Monday to rally a strong Western front to
persuade Russia to step back from a military takeover of Ukraine’s
strategic Crimea region. But several acknowledged there are few options
beyond already-threatened economic and diplomatic penalties, and critics
said administration efforts were too little, too late after years of
pressing for friendlier relations with Moscow.A
stern-faced President Barack Obama labeled the Russian advance in
Crimea a violation of international law. He urged Congress to approve an
aid package for the Ukrainian government, and repeated earlier threats
that the US would take steps to hobble Russia’s economy and isolate it
diplomatically if President Vladimir Putin does not back down.US Secretary of State John Kerry was leaving
for Kiev to reinforce US support for the new Ukrainian government that
only weeks ago ousted its pro-Russian president.But French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
said Russia’s control of Crimea would not be easy to reverse. And the
suggestions he offered — sending in observers from the Organization for
Security and Cooperation, questioning Russia’s membership in the G-8
economic group and holding out for a diplomatic dialogue proposed by
Germany — were an indication of how limited the options were for the US
and Europe.Still, alternately threatening and cajoling
Putin, Western leaders pointed to the damage that his nation’s natural
gas, uranium and coal industries could suffer if sanctions cut off
exports to the European Union, its largest customer.Britain’s prime minister warned of diplomatic,
political, economic “and other pressures” that could be brought against
Moscow. And the European Union’s foreign ministers issued a Thursday
deadline for Putin to pull back his troops or face a rejection of
visa-liberalization and economic cooperation negotiations that have long
been in the works.“I think the situation is relatively clear,
you need to see a return to barracks,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine
Ashton said in Brussels, where ministers also froze preparations for
the Group of Eight summit of major economies that is set for June in
Sochi.In Washington, Obama declared, “The strong
condemnation that has proceeded from countries around the world
indicates the degree to which Russia is on the wrong side of history.”“So there are really two paths that Russia can
take at this point,” Obama said. “Over time, this will be a costly
proposition for Russia, and now is the time for them to consider whether
they can serve their interests in a way that resorts to diplomacy as
opposed to force.”The West stopped far short of suggesting that
its own military force might be used to push Putin’s troops out of
Crimea — even as Ukrainian officials reported that four Russian navy
ships in Sevastopol’s harbor had blocked two vessels controlled by Kiev.Russia, too, tried to steer the world debate.
At a UN session in Geneva, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said Ukraine should return to a February 21
agreement that sought to end months of unrest in Kiev by addressing an
array of issues at the heart of the dispute between protesters and the
government of then-President Viktor Yanukovych. However, that agreement
did not address the grievances that caused the protests in the first
place, and the pro-Russian Yanukovych fled Kiev for protective sanctuary
near Moscow within days of signing it.“Instead of a promised national unity government,” Lavrov complained, “a ‘government of the victors’ has been created.”US officials say the February 21 agreement
could form the basis for a political resolution to the crisis but would
have to be significantly altered.Both Kerry and Lavrov are to attend meetings
in Paris on Wednesday about refugee spillover in Lebanon from the other
war on a NATO border — the three-year bloody conflict in Syria. It is
likely they will discuss the crisis in Ukraine, too.Some critics said the Obama administration
should have seen Russia’s advances coming and blamed the White House for
policies emboldening Putin.Said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who was
defeated by Obama in the 2008 presidential election: “The president of
the United States thinks that the Cold War is over. That’s fine. It is
over. But Putin doesn’t believe it’s over.”
Obama for years tried to cultivate Russian
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the former president, as a friend of the
United States. Significant changes were made to Bush administration
plans for a European missile defense to try to ease Russian concerns,
and a new arms control treaty was signed, as part of Washington’s hopes
to “reset” U.S.-Russia relations.Conservative foreign policy experts in the US said Monday that the reset has long since crashed and burned.“When you implement a policy of appeasement
toward Moscow, that policy is going to spectacularly backfire,” said
scholar Nile Gardiner of the conservative Heritage Foundation. “We’ve
seen that with regards to Crimea and Ukraine.”American Enterprise Institute security expert
Gary Schmitt outlined a number of steps that he said the West should
embrace to pressure Putin. Among them, he said, is the buildup of NATO
forces in neighboring nations to make clear to Russia that there is a
line it cannot cross in Europe. He also said Navy ships and assets
should be moved to the Mediterranean Sea, and possibly the Black Sea,
“to remind Russia there is a military cost for its activities.”He noted that Russia paid little for invading Georgia in 2008.Georgia’s prime minister met with US officials
last week in Washington, and Kerry on Monday pledged a fresh $2.8
million to Moldova to help that nation’s economic prospects. All told,
Kerry said the U.S. has provided close to $1.5 billion in economic
assistance to help Moldova, which, like Georgia, is a former Soviet
republic that has rejected Russia in recent years in favor of Western
inclusion.“So what happens today in Ukraine is just a
reminder to us … that we need to do much more in order to address this
issue,” Moldova Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said Monday at a State
Department meeting with Kerry. “Because if it’s not addressed in time,
then it becomes very contagious.”
