I saw this coming in 2009 and wrote about it. I updated the article this year under the title Obama to impose a solution if necessary. No doubt the solution will be a mix of the Clinton parameters and the Arab Peace Initiative. Ted Belman
It would appear that Netanyahu has been warned many times about the US moves if negotiations fail. He knew that our claim to Judea and Samaria would gain no traction with Obama, legal or not, and therefore didn’t embrace the Levy Report. What he did instead was to keep stressing our security needs which Obama was prepared to listen to. Now that the US has gone public with their intentions, negotiations will go no where. No one will agree to anything more than what they expect Obama to decree. Ted Belman
This solution has nothing to do with who is at fault for the failure of the talks. This was a done deal before the talks started. The talks are a sham. Simply a precursor to a solution being imposed.
Report: US will lay down its own outline for an accord, is determined to reach solution by mid-2014.
By Gil Ronen, ARUTZ SHEVA
The United States intends to try and force a peace agreement on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), IDF Radio reported Monday.
The radio station says the US has informed Israel and the Palestinian Authority that if negotiations between them do not advance, Washington will propose its own solution, that will include a US position on every point that is in contention. In effect, according to the report, this will be an attempt to force the sides to agree on a solution formulated by the US.
The US moves comes after three months of talks between the sides which have reportedly made very litle headway.
The US plan reportedly is similar to the Clinton outline, which is based on an Israeli retreat to 1949 armistice lines, and some swaps of territory.
The Obama Administration is reportedly determined to achieve “a dimplomatic breakthrough” by mid-2014, and believes that Israel under Binyamin Netanyahu and the PA under Mahmoud Abbas are capable of reaching agreement.
Until now, the talks were based on the idea that the two sides negotiate directly, with the US only acting as a mediator.
The American decision to present a proposed agreement was reportedly communicated by several senior officials, including the Special representative to the talks, Martin Indyk. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly briefed Netanyahu on the matter when they last met, in Italy.
IDF Radio is run by the Israeli military and partially staffed by soldiers but is considered to be a mainstream news outlet that is not substantially different from mainstream civilian outlets.
After meeting with senior Palestinian and American officials, Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Gal-On released a statement Monday saying that the Americans are “moving from a coordination phase between the two sides to an intervention phase.”
The new plan, expected to be presented in January 2014, will follow the “Clinton parameters,” according to Gal-On and her policy advisor Ilan Baruch. It will address all the core issues, and will be “based on the ’67 lines with agreed land swaps.”
Also revealed in Gal-On’s meetings with senior officials: U.S. President Barack Obama will continue to pressure Ramallah and Jerusalem to reach a breakthrough in negotiations by the second quarter of 2014.
Gal-On’s statement further asserted that the Americans believe that both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have the political credit necessary to forge an agreement. However, public skepticism on both sides has justified the American preparation to intervene if the talks reach a crisis.
Gal-On added that, in anticipation of a deadlock, the U.S. is expected to lay out a draft plan as early as January, complete with a schedule for talks and additionally addressing the points of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
Finally, these talks will not lead to another interim agreement, Gal-On’s statement explained, as the Americans have accepted that Abbas will no longer be able to drum up public support for anything short of a permanent agreement.
Netanyahu himself, however stated at a meeting of the Likud faction on Monday that while Israel would carefully examine every offer put in front of it, “We will not accept any foreign dictates, no matter how much pressure is put on us.”
Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that Israel must make it clear that any attempts to bypass negotiations would fail.
Kerry: US sees ‘no other plan’ to current track of Mideast peace talk
Published: 11.04.13, 18:04 / Israel News
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the United States will maintain the current track of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he helped launch in July. He added that Washington sees “no other plan.”
This plan was to bring the parties together not dicate the outcome. Galon is doing her lefty wishful thinking and we who want Israel to decide for Israel naturally get concerned about being hardballed.
CuriousAmerican Said:
they need the 2014 elections to get hold of congress and get their agenda passed. everything appears timed for that: Iran(either way: diplomacy or war,) negotiations,…
Now is the time for any secrets on Obama, and the dems, to be released to obstruct his agenda. bombard them with scandal and keep them all occupied.
Obama is a lame duck president.
Now his fangs are bared for all the world to see.
After the 2014 Congressional elections, he will ramp up the heat.
NormanF Said:
they ok’d the release of murderers for nothing. There must be a reason for their approval. Their political protests are a sham show. They allowed BB to do it and the pretended that they are powerless. The same number of people who attended rabbi yosefs funeral need to get out on the street, in the knesset and on the mount.
This is the time for BB to resign and disclose the nature of the debacle; the US extortion must be fully disclosed to the Israeli people and BB should beg forgiveness for his arrogant intransigence in hiding the truth, same as Sharon. If this is true then BB approached negotiations all along as a beggar whose only hope was to convince his master according to his masters priorities. the rights of Jews and the legal agreements to which they have interests were buried by the incompetent leaders of the state of Israel: the know-it-all’s who believe that their approach always trumps the truth.
I have been writing for a long time that there appeared to be a done deal and that these talks are a show to unfold in time for US midterm congressional elections for a dem win in the congress. I am not sure that BB is being pressured now or already agreed way back when. I suggested that these talks were related to the GCC and the weakening of hamas,hezbullah and Assad as a prelude to Iran. My only question was whether the deal was to be finalised and trotted out for credits or whether the “negotiations” were a show to be walked away from at the end: that perhaps the talks were a sham which were agreed to fail so as to keep the pals out of the news for 9 mos while the GCC weakened Irans proxies.
If it is a real deal then the only way to prevent this is through a combined effort of mass protest and suits against the Israeli, EU and US govts for the illegal blockade of jewish settlement in YS. Now is the time to bring down the eu/us onslaught on the Jews. A single issue movement should be started that can unite all in favor of YS from left to right and religious to secular. The Jewish spring in protest of the eu/us swindle of the Jews. It is important to portray the US obama as the extortionist which he is.
This will NOT happen. Obama may make suggestions we do NOT like but will not try and coerce this inspite of Galon’s remarks. If they do try and force this they will fail and I believe Obama knows this.
I don’t think it would pass in Netanyahu’s Likud Party. It can only be imposed by force.
And I think its an empty threat because the US is not in a position to guarantee any imposed agreement, the American people are in no mood for more foreign entanglements – particularly in the Middle East and the Palestinian Arabs are not interested in peace with Israel.
For those reasons, I do not see it going anywhere.
Arabs demand ‘justice’ while Jews grovel and plead for ‘security’. The Arab position naturally appears more just and the world is fed up with what they see as Israeli delays in giving the Arabs a county inside Israel. When Israel first acknowledged Arab rights to a ‘Palestinian’ state they lost the argument and the world is taking advantage of this Israeli failure of spirit.
Our Torah clearly defines the boundaries and instructs the Jews to take full control and move the non Jews out. But Jewish leaders disdain the Torah and believe they know better. This is the dire result of that thinking.
I guess Obama wants to be the first one to win two Nobel Peace Prizes 🙂 What a moron. ROFLMAO