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Jen the Michigander


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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/1105/1224258102125.html

US SECRETARY of state Hillary Clinton attempted to assuage Arab anger yesterday by telling Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak that the US does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlements and seeks to halt their construction “forever”.

She stated, “Our policy on settlement has not changed . . . Ending all settlement activity current and future would be preferable” to its continuation. She said that no issues can be excluded from the negotiations, notably Jerusalem, and tried to reassure Mr Mubarak by saying “our goal is a real [Palestinian] state, with real sovereignty.

“Nothing can interfere with our commitment and our resolve to move forward, and there are impediments, yes, but we cannot let anything deter us.”

However, she reiterated her insistence that an Israeli proposal to restrain settlement amounts to “positive movement forward”.

Egyptian foreign minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit said her comments were “very useful” and indicated Cairo no longer requires an end to settlement activity as a precondition for talks by joining her call for resumption of negotiation.

“The Egyptian vision is that we have to concentrate on the end game and we must not waste time stuck on this issue or that as a precondition for negotiations.”

Egypt’s shift leaves Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas under pressure to resume talks although his Fatah movement and most Palestinians will condemn him if he drops his demand for a total freeze ahead of negotiations.

In order to protect itself from criticism over a change of policy, Cairo is demanding US guarantees that negotiations will be substantive and not “time-wasting”.

Egypt is caught between the rock of financial and diplomatic dependence on the US and the hard place of Israel’s policies.

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Now I've seen stories where HC said that the US preferred that Israeli settlements weren't totally blocked, and now this says the opposite.  I'm confused.confuse

-- Edited by Alex on Friday 6th of November 2009 01:08:01 PM

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The US knows that Netanyahu won't stop the settlements-- getting him to agree to even slow them down is considered progress.

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