In the least surprising move ever, the Obama administration has made its policy regarding Israel/Palestine clear as it “blocked an initiative by Britain, France and Germany to restart stalled Israeli-Palestinian talks by proposing the outlines of a final settlement to their long conflict.”
The Guardian reports:
The three European countries wanted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union to propose a settlement text at a meeting of the Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., U.N., EU and Russia — tentatively scheduled to take place Friday in Berlin on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial meeting, the diplomats said.But a U.S. official said the Obama administration didn’t think a Quartet meeting would produce anything useful in terms of getting the talks restarted. “It wasn’t the right time,” the official said.
Obviously this is not news, let alone “shocking news,” but it shows how the US government can’t even stand behind its own long-stated policies of pushing for a bogus two-state solution. Essentially, any negotiation at all is a threat to ongoing Israeli control and impunity.
