A Peace Process in Which Process Has Come to Outweigh Peace
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/05/world/middleeast/mideast.html
“The kind of ridicule being heaped upon the current effort is not good — you pay a price for that,” said #Daniel_Levy, director of the Middle East and North African program at the European Council on Foreign Affairs.
“There is such a thing as a process that, over all, does more harm than good,” Mr. Levy said. “It behooves the promoter of the process, the Americans, to take seriously the idea that there is such a thing as a bad process that does more to damage two states than to advance it.”
#processus #ennemi de la #paix
Collapse of Peace Talks Gives Israel Easy Exit, but Leaves It in a Precarious Spot
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/middleeast/collapse-of-peace-talks-leaves-israel-in-precarious-position.html?hpw&rref=
Absent a peace process, the threat of a binational state in which Arabs could soon outnumber Jews grows more potent.
“I don’t think the continuation of the status quo is an Israeli interest,” said Shlomo Brom, a retired general at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
“Netanyahu went to these negotiations not because he expected there would be results — he wanted release from potential pressure from the Americans and the Europeans,” Mr. Brom added. “He got this release for the last nine months. Now he will have to think about a new trick.”
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“The negotiations as constructed had, time and again, proved that they were not up to the task of doing anything positive,” [said] Mr. [Daniel] Levy (...) “So the argument that something has been lost by not continuing these same negotiations does not pass the #laugh_test.”