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It may well be that such painful deviations from agreed principles will be reflected in an eventual comprehensive settlement, but prejudging these issues before the beginning of negotiations denies the Palestinians some of their most important bargaining chips.
He changed a 30-year relationship with Egypt in a week; helped to convince the Egyptian military not to fire on citizens in the first stage of the revolution; assembled and enabled a successful coalition to intervene in Libya; worked closely with Turkey, the European Union, and Saudi Arabia to increase pressure on Syria; cooperated with Egypt to broker a
settlement
in Yemen; and worked behind the scenes to convince Bahrain’s government to investigate its own violence against Shia protesters.
If China were genuinely eager to see Syria’s people determine their own political future without Assad’s forced removal, it should have pressed for a modification of the resolution, calling for a ceasefire and the start of a political process that worked towards a
settlement
and Assad’s eventual departure from power.
Ever since Bill Clinton nearly succeeded in brokering a comprehensive
settlement
in 2000, the mantra among supporters of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been that, while a solution exists, Israeli and Palestinian leaders who are willing to reach it do not.
The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect existing
settlement
patterns.
Under “condominialism,” however, both Palestinians and Jews “would be granted the right to settle anywhere within the territory of either of the two states, the two states thus forming a single, binational
settlement
community.”
This approach was on full display in December, when May criticized then-US Secretary of State John Kerry’s condemnation of Israeli
settlement
construction in the West Bank.
A
settlement
over Kashmir is the key to stability in Afghanistan, which would then no longer be a strategic playground for India and Pakistan.
Beyond the additional troops, President Obama must strive for an inclusive
settlement
in Afghanistan.
This means engaging Afghanistan’s neighboring states to promote a
settlement
of national reconciliation that includes all the major stakeholders -- the government, the Taliban and the warlords -- in the country.
The Fund should propose a conceptual framework for the discussions to be held on exchange-rate problems by providing an objective assessment of the adjustments that are needed, and by facilitating
settlement
within the multilateral framework.
And the same challenge hides behind the formula of “inclusion of the Taliban” in any
settlement
for Afghanistan, because the Taliban have no bargaining power without Pakistan, as recent events have shown.
The costs of not reaching a peace
settlement
may not show up in Israel’s economic statistics or in formal diplomatic interactions.
What sort of activities, including violence and
settlement
activity, are to be precluded while negotiations take place?
Calls for an agreement on the most controversial elements of a final peace
settlement
are unrealistic.
To compensate for the damage that their reckless behavior caused, they received €303 billion ($378 billion) in extra credit through Target, the European Central Bank's interbank payment
settlement
system, and can now expect a further €100 billion in help from the European Financial Stability Facility.
There must be a link between what takes place in Gaza and a comprehensive
settlement
to the Palestinian question if Mazen is to persuade a majority of his people that diplomacy and compromise deliver more than violence and confrontation.
Last April, Argentina pulled off the largest bond issue in Latin America’s history, after a
settlement
with “holdout” creditors from an earlier debt rescheduling ended its pariah status in markets.
The Arab position is that no proximity talks can be held until Israel freezes its
settlement
activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
This would be a major loss: the WTO’s dispute
settlement
process is essential to rules-based global trade.
Indeed, the only way to reconsolidate European security is to reach a durable
settlement
based on its principles; indeed, had those principles been respected, the current crisis in Ukraine would not have occurred in the first place.
First, the most important contribution that this conference can make to the possibility of a negotiated
settlement
and a political transition in Syria is to change the principal parties’ incentives.
After a breakdown in diplomatic approaches, the rich world is busy dropping bombs on Serbia, at a cost of billions of dollars per month, and will no doubt devote billions more to cleaning up and fixing the damage from the bombs once a diplomatic
settlement
is made finally.
It also includes designating a Chinese financial institution to provide clearing and
settlement
services for transactions in renminbi in each leading financial center (in September, for example, the Bank of China was chosen as the official clearing bank for New York).
The only thing left to do now is to destroy Al Nusra’s remaining enclave in Idlib and broker some kind of
settlement
between the YPG and Assad.
And, needless to say, the country’s economy has been shattered, owing to the direct effects of the conflict and to sanctions that were imposed as part of the failed effort to force Assad into a political
settlement.
At the same time, the EU should not lift sanctions until a credible political
settlement
between the regime and opposition forces has been reached.
The question is whether such a
settlement
is even possible.
Every American president since 1967 has sought to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Bill Clinton offering the most thorough and judicious parameters for a peace
settlement
ever conceived by any foreign statesman.
For Trump, the appeal of brokering a peace
settlement
most likely lies mainly in how it would affect his own legacy.
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