Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent: Israel, U.S. inch toward deal on settlements
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Title:arik of london on passing the ball
Name:Yaakov Sullivan
City: NYCState: NY
You should understand one thing. The game of words is over and there is nothing conceltual left. The settlements are an impediment to peace and to a solution of the Israel/Palestine conflict, not Iran, not Hamas, but the settlements. With them in place there simply can be no Palestinian state and therefore no peavce or stability in the ME. Obama knows that. The Arab world is ready to recognise Israel within certain borders and the world recognises those borders as the cease fire lines from 1949-67. Either israel stops its colonialist expansionism or it must be punished for its intransigence by sanctions and freeze on all financial support for its current regime. It`s that simply, arik. Nothing conceptual about it.