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| U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, together with the President, Barack Obama, at the White House. |
Demand is expressed frustration Mitchell-caara by the Obama administration to deal with the Israel - Palestine, as mentioned by a newspaper based in Nazareth (an-Nasirah).
Hadith an-Nass Mitchell reported that demand was partly due to his personal failure in pursuing progress on peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Others are caused by a number of elements within the State Department that was biased and skewed to Israel.
According to an-Nass, the White House rejected the request Mitchell. However, neither party gives verification of the report.
Peace talks were suspended in December 2008 following a brutal aggression Zioniz Israel for three weeks in the Gaza Strip and killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, and peace talks are still continuing to this day.
That is because Israel Zioniz stubbornness is not willing to stop settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
On Wednesday (24/10), U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. lawmakers about his hope that Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations.
President Barack Obama's effort to make the two sides back to the negotiating table so far without success, but Clinton menyampaika positive tone in testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate.
After last year urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity on Palestinian land in the West Bank, the U.S. continues to soften, the U.S. now expects President Mahmoud Abbas demands release halt settlement activity before peace talks resume.
Clinton also criticized Israel's decision to enter the holy sites in the West Bank in the list of "cultural heritage of Israel". Israel's claim to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Rachel's tomb (Qubbat Rakhil) in Bethlehem sparked protests throughout the West Bank and Gaza.
On 19 February, a senior UN official pressure on President Mahmoud Abbas to be willing to negotiate with Israel.
"The deadlock is happening now makes us worried," said B Lynn Pascoe, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, in the presence of the UN Security Council.
"The Secretary-General (Ban Ki-moon) berharapa that President Abbas will take a step forward so that serious talks can be resumed," he added.
In a brief statement to the Security Council, Mr. Pascoe urged Israel to extend the settlement freeze for 10 months, but he also noted that the Israeli authorities received reports of violations of the settlement freeze order, at least in 69 settlements.
He also criticized the blockade of Gaza by Israel.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has previously insisted that it still requires Israel to comply with promises to stop the expansion of illegal Jewish pemmukiman before negotiations can proceed.
The PLO said that it had to comply with the commitment in the first phase of the Road Map peace plan initiated by the United States that requires Israel to do the same.
In November last year, Netanyahu declared the delay partly to the expansion of settlements outside East Jerusalem, but Abbas said that it was not enough.
Source: AFP
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