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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
'US getting tougher with Israel over settlements'
2016-05-09
[Ynet] Diplomats say upcoming Quartet report, expected to be endorsed by Washington, will focus on Jewish construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but also chastise Paleostinian leaders for failing to rein in violence.

The United States will endorse a tougher tone with Israel in an upcoming international report that takes the Jewish state to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the Paleostinians claim for a future state, diplomats told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
One wonders who authorized those diplomats to talk, however namelessly, with an AyPee reporter...
The US and its fellow Mideast mediators also will chastise Paleostinian leaders for failing to rein in anti-Israeli violence. But the diplomats involved in drafting the document said its primary focus will be a surge of construction in Jewish housing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
"Nice country ya got there. Be a shame if something happened and you had no friends to send more bullets..."
The US approval of the harsh language marks a subtle shift.
It's only subtle if you're the head of a a longshoremen's union pondering kneecaps, a.k.a. a community activist.
Washington has traditionally tempered statements by the so-called "Quartet
... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy....
" of mediators with careful diplomatic language, but the diplomats said the US in this case will align itself closer to the positions of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, Russia and the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
, who emphasize Israel's role in the Mideast impasse.

The report's release is sure to infuriate Israel,
...intentionally. Hence the pre-release leak.
where officials are already bracing for expected criticism. And on the other side, although the mediators will endorse some long-standing Paleostinian complaints, the Paleostinians are likely to complain the report does not go far enough.
Pro forma. They're getting the world leaning on Israel to surrender territory, which is all they care about.
Diplomats acknowledge the report, which could come out in late May or June, will be largely symbolic, requiring no action. It could be unveiled at the UN and possibly sent to the Security Council for an endorsement, according to the diplomats, who included three US officials.
Establishing the precedent for the next steps undertaken by various organizations, governments, etc, raising the temperature another few degrees of the water in which the frog still swims.
The Paleostinians recently put off their push for a new UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, in part because of the coming report, the diplomats said. And with anti-Israel sentiment growing in Europe, La Belle France may delay a planned May 30 meeting of foreign ministers on the situation.

The French also are talking about hosting a Mideast peace conference this summer. 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 expected to discuss the French initiative with Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault while on a trip to Gay Paree next week.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  One wonders who authorized those diplomats to talk, however namelessly, with an AyPee reporter...

*cough* Jahn Fn Kerry *cough*
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-09 15:07  

#1  Having solved all the worlds problems as well as our own, we can now turn to straightening out the Juice. (somebody pass me a /sarc tag, wouldja?)
Posted by: SteveS   2016-05-09 00:50  

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