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Report: US gives Netanyahu ultimatum on resuming talks
Israel Radio Reported Sunday that The United States gave Netanyahu an ultimatum on renewing negotiations with the Palestinians.
According to the ultimatum, Netanyahu has to decide within a month whether he agrees to accept US President Obama’s proposal and resume talks based on 1967 lines.
Washington is pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accede to its proposal to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the basis of U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech.
An Israeli source who spoke recently with senior officials in Washington said the Americans were very frustrated with Netanyahu’s behavior, feeling that he was impeding America’s efforts to keep the Palestinians from unilaterally seeking UN recognition of a state in September.
Netanyahu’s personal envoy, Isaac Molho, spent last week in Washington, where the Americans presented their proposal for resuming talks on the basis of Obama’s speech. Specifically, Obama’s plan calls for negotiating over borders and security first, while deferring issues such as Jerusalem and the refugees until later. It also calls for the borders to be based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed land swaps.
The Americans told Molho that to block European initiatives such as France’s proposal for an international peace conference in Paris, they must have something concrete to offer, like Netanyahu‘s agreement to negotiate on the basis of Obama’s speech.
The U.S. proposal was also given to chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who said the Palestinians would resume talks on this basis.

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Obama to host Netanyahu at White House on May 20th while Michelle resigns.

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"The leaders look forward to discussing the full range of issues of mutual interest to the United States and Israel," US statement says.

Talkbacks (4)   WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will host Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a meeting on May 20, the White House said on Wednesday.

"The leaders look forward to discussing the full range of issues of mutual interest to the United States and Israel," the White House said in a statement.

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Earlier this month, Netanyahu acknowledged for the first time that he will deliver a speech to a joint session of the US Congress at the end of May in which he will lay out the principles of his government’s diplomatic and security policies.

“Next month I will have the opportunity to present the principles of our diplomatic and security polices during my visit to the US,” Netanyahu said at a pre-Pessah Likud gathering in Tel Aviv.

“I received an invitation to speak before a joint session of Congress from my friend Speaker of the House John Boehner, and I greatly appreciate this opportunity. It symbolizes the strong alliance between the American people, the American Congress and the American administration with Israel and the Jewish people.”

At the same time, the main guy quits.

Obama's special envoy for Middle East resigns

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Washington: Special US Envoy for the Middle East George J Michelle has resigned after his two-year efforts failed to advance Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Michelle, 77, communicated his decision to President Barack Obama in a letter without giving any specific reason, except for saying that his intention was to serve in this post for two years. Michelle's resignation has been accepted by

Obama and his deputy David Hale has been asked to serve as acting envoy.

"When I accepted your request to serve as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace my intention was to serve for two years. More than two years having passed I hereby resign, effective May 20, 2011," Michelle said in a letter to Obama, a copy of which was released by the White House.

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Get your plan ready, Mr Obama

clipped from www.economist.com As talks look set to resume, Barack Obama must prepare a big plan of his own EVEN by the gloomy standards of the misnamed Middle East peace process, the prospect of a lasting deal between Jews and Arabs in that little strip of land between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean has seemed remoter than ever. Yet the latest news offers a rare glimmer of hope. After more than a year of sullen stalemate, indirect talks between the two sides look set to resume (see article). Sadly they are likely to flounder unless the Americans do more than just nudge them along. Sooner rather than later, Barack Obama must present his own detailed plan for peace. He must take the lead in providing Israel with the only guarantee of its lasting security: the creation of a proper state for the Palestinians. Mr Obama should also propose a NATO force under American command to monitor and secure a Palestinian border and ensure that a Palestinian state has limited military power. And he should come to Israel and sell his plan directly to Israelis, explaining why two states, including a shared Jerusalem, is the only way, in the long run, to make Israel safe. Mr Obama must dispatch the canard that he is hostile to the Jewish state. Being impatient with Israel does not mean he disregards it: he has repeatedly guaranteed Israel’s security. But if the chance of building two co-existing states is not to fade, the Obama plan cannot be delayed much longer.

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U.S. security official: No new concrete Mideast peace plan

clipped from www.haaretz.com United States National Security Advisor James Jones said Friday the administration was discussing how to jump-start the lagging Middle East peace process, but did not have a new plan to offer. Speaking to reporters accompanying U.S. President Barack Obama back to Washington from Prague, Gen. James Jones said, there's been no decision made regarding a concrete Middle East peace plan. Earlier this week there had been reports saying that the administration was poised to offer a new U.S. peace proposal to Israel and the Palestinian Authority that would build on understandings reached at Camp David, Maryland, in 2000. Earlier Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri called for a "world leadership" to force all the parties to the Middle East conflict to negotiate, describing U.S. President Barack Obama as the "ideal person" to head the effort. Netanyahu said an external arrangement "won't work and it won't be acceptable if a settlement is forced on us,"

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Israeli-Palestinian peace process at critical stage, Arab leaders say

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned Saturday that peace talks would not move forward "as long as Israel maintains its settlement policy," continuing the rift in the region that began this month with Israel's intent to build housing in disputed territory.

The remarks came at the Arab Summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, where many leaders echoed Abbas' views.

"It's time to face Israel. We have to have alternative plans because the situation has reached a turning point," Moussa said.

The conference -- titled "Summit for Supporting a Steadfast Jerusalem" -- gathered 14 Arab heads of state, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Italian Prime Minister Slivio Berlusconi, among other guests.

"For too long our opponents have been able to talk about international law without being held to account," Ayalon said. "We say strongly and firmly that we have a legal right to build in Jerusalem. ...

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The Middle East Peace Scam

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clipped from canadafreepress.com Only one policy, Only one platform, Only one plan. Pressuring Israel for more concessions “I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem”  —Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, March 09, 2010 For nearly twenty years the great sham of the Middle East Peace Process has dragged on. And this despicable scam has consisted of only one policy, only one platform and only one plan. Pressuring Israel for more concessions. Year in and year out, new peace conferences were declared and new plans for peace were hammered out. All of them had one thing in common, they carved up Israel for a non-existent peace. There are, of course, no worries about whether Israel will trust Abbas and his Fatah gang. As if anybody in their right mind would, You will not, of course, hear about any of this in the media, which is still busy being outraged by the thought of Jews living in Jerusalem

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