Israeli FM says peace talks at dead end

[bemildred]

JERUSALEM, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel's new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that the peace process with the Palestinians has reached a "dead end" where new ideas are needed.

"There is definitely a regression here, and we must understand and admit that we are at a dead end," local daily Ha'aretz quoted the Yisrael Beiteinu party chief as saying at a party meeting.

"We definitely intend to present new ideas" on the unwieldy historic conflict between the two neighbors, added the deputy premier.

The blunt remarks came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama voiced in Turkey his belief in the Middle East peace prospect and called for political will and courage from both sides to make necessary compromises in order to achieve a two-state solution.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/08/content_11145808.htm

[Hawkeye-X]

1. If this fuckwit can't do his job

He needs to resign, effective immediately, and force Bibi to call for new elections.

Hawkeye-X

[LeftishBrit]

7. I agree 100%

[damntexdem]

2. How about this? No more U.S. aid or support until the Israeli government is willing to negoritate?

To actually negotiate.

[bemildred]

3. Israel sees "dead end," Obama calls for peace

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's far-right foreign minister said on Tuesday peace efforts with the Palestinians had reached a "dead end," on the same day U.S. President Barack Obama called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Avigdor Lieberman, whose right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party is the second largest in Israel's new coalition government, was speaking as Obama ended a trip to Turkey on his first trip as president to the Muslim world.

Obama said both sides needed to compromise for a two-state solution, as outlined in peace talks Israel launched with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007 at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland.

But Lieberman said of the Western-backed Middle East peace process: "There is definitely a regression here and we must understand and admit that we are at a dead end."

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL759304420090407?rpc=401&

[Jefferson23]

5. I'm waiting for Livni's vocal reaction myself.

[livefreest]

4. they've had dead ends before and came out of them. so talking about the dead end

is the beginning of working on it. Avigdor Lieberman better be ready.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. At last, something Lieberman and I agree about...

The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been at a dead end since 2000, when Ehud Barak refused to consent to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.

That's the new idea that is needed, and I don't think it's one Lieberman is going to consent to.