UN Official Warns That New Israeli Settlement Building Could Torpedo Palestinian Peace Talks

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. political chief is warning that chances of peacefully ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be "irreparably damaged" unless steps are taken to prevent new Israeli settlement building and other "negative developments."

Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council on Tuesday that four months since the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at a two-state solution, negotiators "have gone some way towards narrowing their differences."

But he said "strains have been growing dangerously between the parties."

Feltman cited "a significant setback" following a series of Israeli announcements of settlement plans in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, especially the Nov. 13 announcement of 24,000 new units.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/un-official-warns-that-new-israeli-settlement-building-could-torpedo-palestinian-peace-talks/2013/11/19/dce95c94-5144-11e3-9ee6-2580086d8254_story.html

[lark]

1. So, in other words.

The Israeli hardliners think this is a two-fer. They have no interest in peace.

[L0oniX]

4. Beating ones own head into a concrete wall is more worthwhile.

[L0oniX]

3. YAwn ...the usual encroachment and land grab.

[cpwm17]

5. Israel is destroying the separate but equal plans of the segregationists

euphemistically called the "Two-State Solution."

Israel wants it all, but that only strengthens the fact that Israel/Palestine is really already only one state, and one state it will remain.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. The Neo Crusaders are having their moment in the sun.