Mitchell talks negotiating tracks http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/mitchell-talks-negotiating-tracks/ Middle East Bulletin, the publication of the liberal Center for American Progress’ Middle East Progress initiative, has an interview with Obama administration Middle East envoy George Mitchell. While he mostly speaks in "diplomat-ese," he does discuss the multi-track negotiating approach that the U.S. hopes to take if the Palestinians agree to come to the table: en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-12-02T;00:11:00-05:00 Comment by Yosef Hartuv yosefandmelody@gmail.com The Obama Administration now has a huge problem in its Israel-Palestinian policy about which no one is yet speaking. Since the White House lacks the stomach to deal with it the problem won’t be evident for some time, except perhaps to the readers of these words. Here’s the issue. It’s simple. It should be obvious: How is the Obama Administration going to get the Palestinians to the table now that Israel has proved itself flexible, ready for negotiations, and willing to make peace. Because, despite President Obama’s claim in his Cairo speech that the Palestinian situation is “intolerable” and they are ready to do a deal, that just isn’t true.http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-administrations-giant-problem-how.html#links The Obama Administration now has a huge problem in its Israel-Palestinian policy about which no one is yet speaking. Since the White House lacks the stomach to deal with it the problem won’t be evident for some time, except perhaps to the readers of these words.

Here’s the issue. It’s simple. It should be obvious: How is the Obama Administration going to get the Palestinians to the table now that Israel has proved itself flexible, ready for negotiations, and willing to make peace. Because, despite President Obama’s claim in his Cairo speech that the Palestinian situation is “intolerable” and they are ready to do a deal, that just isn’t true.http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-administrations-giant-problem-how.html#links

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