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| Israel: Failed Peace Talks Won't Bring More Violence |
| 2014-02-05 |
| [AnNahar] The failure of peace talks with the Paleostinians would not lead to an increase in violence, the head of Israel's domestic security agency said Tuesday. "Even if the peace negotiations fail, we are not expecting a third Intifada," or uprising, Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen was cited by army radio as telling the parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee. Cohen added that while there was a rise in Paleostinian attacks against Israelis in 2013, most were from "individuals as opposed to terrorist organizations" and in part due to "internal problems in the Paleostinian street," according to the Jerusalem Post. Spokesmen for the committee and the Shin Bet refused to provide a transcript of Cohen's briefing as it was confidential. Cohen's remarks come as the United States is preparing a framework agreement to set out the end game in the Israeli-Paleostinian negotiations that resumed in July, and to guide the talks forward ahead of their April deadline. Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... warned in December that he would resort to legal and diplomatic action against Israel through international bodies if peace talks failed to yield results. And U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry 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... said Saturday that Israel was facing a growing campaign of delegitimization which would worsen if negotiations collapsed. But in an interview with the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... published Sunday, Abbas firmly ruled out a third Intifada. "I will never return to the armed struggle," he said. |
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