Settlement
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Any
settlement
should also include the banks’ explicit agreement that they will support modifying America’s bankruptcy law to enable inclusion of mortgages in the usual court-run processes.
It is clear that for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, the start of indirect talks without freezing
settlement
activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory.
Just to remind the world of this, as the indirect talks were preparing to get off the ground, Israel’s government approved a decision to break ground on 112 housing units in a
settlement
south of Bethlehem, and 1600 new
settlement
units in East Jerusalem.
But a return to the 1967 borders would mean that large
settlement
blocks – as well as smaller settlements and East Jerusalem – would be part of the Palestinians state.
Previous talks have included an allowance for land exchanges, which would permit Israel to keep many large
settlement
blocks by giving land inside Israel to the Palestinians.
Stubbornly refusing to talk face to face while
settlement
activities are not completely frozen has focused attention on what many believe is the crux of Israel’s colonial occupation regime.
For many Palestinians and Israelis, as well as for the international community, the shape and details of what would be a
settlement
acceptable to majorities on both sides is well known.
By focusing on the need to reach agreements on borders within a short time period, Palestinians are saying that they do not see any need to negotiate gradual steps, preferring to agree on the final
settlement
first and then work back on issues of implementation.
Hefty fines imposed by US regulators for breaching the rules – notably, the recent $8.9 billion
settlement
by BNP Paribas – are already causing European banks to re-think their compliance costs and the profitability of operating in the US.
President Vladimir Putin is a realist; he knows that heeding the call for Russia to assume a leadership role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would damage his relationships with both parties, without bringing them any closer to a
settlement.
As the Palestinians and their friends in the international community might realize when the dust settles, it does not preclude the city’s eventual division into two capitals as part of a peace settlement, much less guarantee Israel sovereignty over all of Jerusalem as its “eternal capital.”
All attempts at modifying the arrangement stopped short of what was needed: a political
settlement
between Germans and Slavs like that between Germans and Magyars.
Second, just as Austria needed a
settlement
between Germans and Slavs, the EU needs to repeat the Franco-German reconciliation of 1952 between its largest western and eastern members, Germany and Poland.
Likewise, so-called digital wallets and mobile transfers are efforts to improve payments and
settlement
in a retail financial sector that gets a lot less attention than its institutional peers.
Hamas has agreed to accept any negotiated peace
settlement
between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, provided it is approved in a referendum among the Palestinian people.
Nine thousand new Israeli
settlement
housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.
Also, his formal role is limited to helping the Palestinians sort out their economic and political affairs, not trying to negotiate a peace
settlement
– a task reserved for US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
Blair will also likely press Israel to prove its intentions by stopping all
settlement
activity in the West Bank – no new settlements, no expansion of existing ones.
These are all needs to be met even before the US can try again to broker a political
settlement
between Israel and the Palestinians.
The agreement is likely to entail greater territorial adjustments than were called for under the Annan Plan, as well as modernized security guarantees, a phasing out of
settlement
and property restrictions, and clearer and more decentralized governing arrangements.
Not unlike North Korea’s and Iran’s defiant nuclear policies, Bashar’s membership in the region’s “axis of evil” is a call for dialogue with America, not an invitation to an invasion, and for a
settlement
with Israel, not a drive to wage war on it.
The desire for a political
settlement
that could end the Syrian civil war is palpable; but just what that
settlement
would look like remains open to debate – or to further conflict.
But that will be impossible without a
settlement
in Syria and a decision by Iran to stop supporting Hezbollah.
The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has emphasized the need for a comprehensive political settlement, is tacitly supporting Assad, but is also deeply concerned about the Islamic State.
Weakening the Tigers militarily has thus always been a necessary condition for achieving a political
settlement
with Sri Lanka’s Tamils.
Of course, strategic stability, trust among nations, and the
settlement
of regional conflicts would all help to advance the process of disarmament.
Monnet had some knowledge of coal and steel, having been involved, as a League of Nations official, in finding a
settlement
for the question of Upper Silesia after WWI.
We have also re-launched
settlement
talks concerning the breakaway region of Transdniestria, where the only viable basis for a solution is to make Moldova ever more economically and politically attractive to the region’s residents.
Zhou’s 2009 essay galvanized these efforts, as he pointed to the evident inadequacies of the dollar-centered system (such as the impact of chronic US deficits) and outlined the SDR’s advantages as an alternative means of international financial
settlement.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a valiant effort to negotiate a peace
settlement
when there still seemed to be a remote chance of success.
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