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Israel is not being pressured to negotiate in good faith, and it sees no benefit to making concessions, especially as most of the world remains silent on the Palestinians’ plight.
When the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat humiliated Mubarak before the US secretary of state and the international media by refusing to sign an annex to an Israeli-Palestinian accord brokered in Cairo, Mubarak told him, “Sign it, you son of a dog!”On the other hand, when Arab public opinion opposed Palestinian concessions, Mubarak remained aloof from US peace initiatives.
The US has even spurned World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy’s desperate attempt to get member states to support a wholly emasculated agreement – described by critics as Doha Lite and Decaffeinated – which is mainly confined to some concessions to the least-developed countries.
Nor has he been willing to confront the business lobbies that are willing to hold the Doha Round hostage in order to extract ever more concessions by other countries, even though they know that the trade talks are about to be sucked into the Bermuda Triangle of the 2012 US presidential election.
Instead of offering concessions, which could create long-term instability in the eurozone, Europe’s leaders must remain committed to creating strong incentives for all member states to maintain prudent fiscal policies capable of reducing public-debt ratios and restoring fiscal buffers against asymmetric shocks to the currency union.
That argument ended only when it became clear that the Chinese could squeeze no other concessions out of those on the other side of the table.
On the contrary, they are insisting on more extensive concessions as the price of a third bailout.
Obama also faces falling support from business lobbies in manufacturing and services – sectors that are demanding more concessions from other nations.
Mutual concessions can be crafted that ensure negligible political fallout for both leaders.
This would also require marginal improvements in concessions by the major developing countries, and by the US and the European Union on services.
A bold international move would be needed to overcome entrenched positions, and that means a deal involving substantial concessions by the US and the EU on agriculture in return for commensurate commitments by India, Brazil, China, and others to open their own markets for services and agriculture.
When prices fall, governments back down and return equity and concessions to global companies in exchange for continued investment and employment.
State-controlled energy companies, such as Saudi Aramco, Brazil’s Petrobras, and China National Petroleum, own or have concessions to extract three-quarters of the world’s oil reserves and two-thirds of its natural gas.
Second, with Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, Israel now has a government which is far less likely to be willing – or able – to make major concessions and evacuate hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.
To demonstrate real leadership within the French-German partnership, Germany will have to make political concessions.
The second prominent change in the USMCA is its agricultural concessions, particularly Canada’s agreement to give US producers access to up to 3.6% of its dairy market, worth about $70 million.
In fact, Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, had managed to wrest similar dairy concessions from Canada in 2015 as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which Trump withdrew the US immediately upon taking office.
The revolt has forced French President Emmanuel Macron to make significant and costly concessions, but it is hardly a new French Revolution.
The players in the North Korean nuclear game must pursue gradual de-escalation, characterized by mutual concessions.
Yet Putin’s recent actions make it clear that even a sultan must periodically make certain concessions.
Yet Hamas continues to reject territorial concessions, insisting that all of historic Palestine must be under Muslim jurisdiction.
Lured by tax concessions, third sector bodies hitch their destiny to governments and lose their independence.
Japan kept the yen undervalued and erected hidden barriers to foreign goods, precipitating strong pressure – and periodic arm-twisting – by the US for Japanese concessions.
This is not about making concessions; it is about putting in place a rigorous but fair process that encourages Balkan countries to identify their shortcomings and devise plans to overcome them.
Germany remains willing to do the minimum – and nothing more – to hold the euro together, and the EU’s recent steps have merely reinforced German resistance to further concessions.
Finally, international competition for inward foreign direct investment may lead governments to reduce tax rates and increase concessions for foreign investors.
But, as direct-tax concessions have little or no effect in diverting international investment, let alone in attracting such flows, they constitute an unnecessary loss of revenue.
Why Sanctions on Russia Don’t WorkMOSCOW – The Western approach to Russia is predicated on the supposition that continued pressure on the country will cause President Vladimir Putin’s regime to make concessions or even crumble.
Yet, in the end, the UK made critical concessions that allowed the negotiations to move forward.
But the Bush administration pressured the UK government to veto a deal along these lines, arguing that more concessions could be extracted from the Iranians if they were squeezed harder and threatened with tougher sanctions and even a military response.
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