Kerry continues Mideast shuttle diplomacy
[Egypt Independent] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
is meeting for the second time in two days with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, trying to nudge him and the Israeli leader closer to a peace pact that would establish a Paleostinian state alongside Israel.
Kerry, who traveled to the West Bank on Saturday, is brokering an intense phase of negotiations aimed at getting the two sides to agree on a framework to guide talks for a final settlement in the decades-long dispute.
Reaching a deal on that framework, however, is not likely on this trip, Kerry's 10th to the region for Mideast peace talks.
After his meeting with Abbas, Kerry heads back to Jerusalem for more talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Posted by: Fred 2014-01-05 |