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Israel to delay settlement announcement
Jan. 2, 2014 at 12:30 AM
JERUSALEM, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Israel won't announce new settlement
construction bids while the U.S.
secretary of state is in the region, officials said as John Kerry
was to land Thursday.
"Nobody has an intention of sticking
a finger in Kerry's eye," a senior official told Israel's
Haaretz newspaper.
The Obama administration considers
settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- territories Israel seized
from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War -- illegitimate and an
obstacle to peace.
During the war, Israel
took effective control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt -- known then as the United Arab Republic
-- the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan
and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Most of the world considers Israeli
housing settlements in any of those captured territories illegal under
international law.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
says the expanded settlement plans undermine any chance of peace, and
Palestinian leaders say they plan to fight them in the International Criminal
Court in The Hague, Netherlands, if the peace talks
fail.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
denounced the settlement plans in a New Year's Eve address, calling them a
"cancer" and vowing to use the Authority's "right as a U.N.
observer state by taking political, diplomatic and legal action to stop
it."
He also reiterated his threat to seek U.N.
recognition of a Palestinian state if Israel expands settlement
construction.
Kerry was to meet with Abbas, Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other officials from Thursday through at
least Sunday, and probably longer, to advance a U.S.-led effort to draft a
preliminary framework for peace.
Kerry first proposed the framework last
month as the end goal of nine months of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that
started in July.
Kerry originally said the nine-month goal,
in April, was to forge a final agreement in the long-running conflict.
The Obama administration says it hopes to
present the preliminary framework to both sides by the end of the month.
This is Kerry's 10th Middle
East visit as secretary of state to advance the difficult
Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Netanyahu said last week he planned to
publish the new housing-construction proposals, or tenders, shortly after
Monday night's Israeli release of 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners -- the
third of four promised releases.
Israel agreed to release 104 Palestinian
prisoners in four phases as part of a U.S.-brokered deal to resume the peace
talks.
Netanyahu is torn between a desire to
succeed in the peace talks and not being seen as a "sucker" for
releasing the prisoners and potentially getting nothing in return if the peace
talks fail, Israel's
Army Radio reported, citing officials who recently met with Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has made a point of tying
settlement announcements to the prisoners' release.
John Kerry
John F. Kerry
is the secretary at the U.S. Department of State
for the Barack Obama administration, and
married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Note: Teresa Heinz Kerry
is married to John F. Kerry, an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Haim Saban
is a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres,
and a board member for the Friends of the Israel
Defense Forces.
Shimon
Peres is a friend of Haim Saban, and
the president for Israel.
Marvin
Josephson was the chairman for the Friends of the Israel
Defense Forces, and is an overseer for the International
Rescue Committee.
Princess
Firyal is an overseer for the International Rescue
Committee, and the princess for Jordan.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the International Rescue
Committee, the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and Refugees International.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Henry A. Kissinger
is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, a member of the Bohemian Club, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Queen Noor
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), a director at Refugees International,
and the queen dowager for Jordan.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a member of the Belizean
Grove.
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club.
George H.W. Bush talks about the
NWO; Walter Cronkite said he is glad to sit at the Right Hand of Satan
Dark Secrets inside Bohemian
Grove
Bohemian Club
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here
The Bavarian Order of the
Illuminati Owl of Wisdom
Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian
Club, and the anchorman
for the CBS News.
William
M. Daley is a contributor for the CBS News, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and
was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama
administration.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley
Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N.
Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Valerie
B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
the senior adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a
Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Teresa
Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F.
Kerry.
John F. Kerry
is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the secretary
at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.
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