Settlement
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Rather, the doves should highlight the need for an immediate end to
settlement
expansion, which is an essential condition for their participation, in their various factions, in a third government led by Binyamin Netanyahu.
But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that there was no negotiated
settlement
of this new order.
Indeed, the prospect of hosting the football World Cup might constitute yet another incentive for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a
settlement.
The processes in which the Sudanese parties are currently engaged – the preparations for the South Sudan referendum, negotiations on post-referendum arrangements, and the search for a negotiated
settlement
in Darfur – are all informed by this desire for peace.
This requires that Sudan’s various leadership collectives have sufficient strength and cohesion to bring their constituencies into the settlement, and therefore that no one, from near or afar, does anything to weaken any of these collectives.
His study highlights the overall decline of the situation and the increasing difficulty of reaching a peace
settlement.
At the moment, the problem is even more serious, since the suspension of
settlement
expansion, which is key to any peace talks, is not supported in Israel.
In particular, Canada-style solutions are inconsistent with both a successful divorce
settlement
and keeping Northern Ireland in a customs union with the rest of the UK.
This lesson is lost on the Bush administration, which senselessly alienated Iran in 2002, when moderates had the upper hand there and were cooperating in Afghanistan, and reversed decades of US policy by insisting that any Middle East
settlement
must accept changed “realities on the ground” in the West Bank.
And, in my view, Putin’s “realism” in providing military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is preferable to futile Western efforts to orchestrate a “political settlement.”
Based on a
settlement
last week, BP will now pay the largest criminal penalty in US history – $4.5 billion.
The UN Special Envoy for the Kosovo Future Status Process, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, has now, after 14 months of intensive negotiations with Belgrade and Pristina, presented his
settlement
proposal to the Security Council.
International supervision of Kosovo’s independence by a strong international civilian and military presence will be critical to ensure that it fulfills its obligations under the
settlement
proposal.
Barack Obama, who wants to be a transformative president like his role model, Abraham Lincoln, could do worse to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize that he received prematurely than to facilitate a comprehensive Middle East peace
settlement.
Its involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely be limited to maintaining the status quo rather than seeking a comprehensive
settlement.
While a two-state solution has long been the objective for a negotiated settlement, it is time to acknowledge that, two decades after the failure of the Oslo Accords, the current pathway to statehood is blocked.
The Israeli government is not interested in changing the status quo; its strategy of continued
settlement
expansion carries minimal diplomatic, economic, and security costs.
While the current situation on the ground stagnates – amid continued
settlement
expansion, extensive Israeli military control, and anemic Palestinian institutions – an emerging generation of Palestinians is determined to take the stage.
Judging by past experience, a likely outcome could be a decade or more of soul-searching and instability, leading eventually to a new
settlement
in both politics and economics.
Sooner or later, peace will have to be imposed upon the Israelis and the Palestinians, who have proven to be incapable of reaching a
settlement
on their own.
Sources within the US administration hint that President Barack Obama might announce the outlines of an Arab-Israeli
settlement
sometime later this year.
This is in tandem with the authorities’ efforts to promote the internationalization of the renminbi, which is rapidly expanding its role in trade
settlement.
There were high expectations, both at home and abroad, that South Africa could and would punch above its weight in international affairs, capitalizing on the extraordinary and unexpected constitutional
settlement
achieved by Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in 1994.
A peace
settlement
should not be impossible.
Israel, too, would be well advised to prepare for epochal change in the region and try to reach a peace
settlement
with the Palestinians and Syria as quickly as possible.
Add to this that by September, the partial
settlement
freeze, which Israel’s government has accepted, will expire, and that the period set by the Arab League for the so-called proximity talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, which have not seriously begun, will also be over.
Serious direct negotiations are unlikely to begin without a freeze on
settlement
building, which Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to announce or implement, given resistance within his coalition government.
Netanyahu’s short-sighted reluctance to give up settlements and occupied territory threatens Israel’s long-term interest to reach a fair
settlement
with the Palestinians.
That is why Syrian Kurds’ political representatives advocate a negotiated settlement, and are willing to sit down with anyone – regime or rebels – to achieve a peace agreement.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Israel is rightly perceived as a status quo state that aspires to have it all: continued control over and
settlement
of the Palestinian territories and “quiet for quiet” from the Palestinians.
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