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US Mideast envoy to make final push ahead of UN meet
AFP - 2 hours 54 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (AFP) - - US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was to make a final push to revive Middle East peace talks during a visit to the region Sunday ahead of the annual UN General Assembly meeting later this month.
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Washington has for months been trying to wrangle a settlement freeze out of Israel and wring concessions from Arab states to allow for the resumption of peace talks suspended during the Gaza war at the turn of the year.
But while Israel has agreed to a temporary settlement halt, it has also authorised the construction of hundreds of new homes in advance of the freeze.
The Palestinians have said they will not resume talks -- and Arab leaders have said they will not take steps to normalise relations with Israel -- without a complete halt to settlement growth.
Diplomats have nevertheless expressed hope that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas would meet for the first time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month.
However, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat has insisted that the Palestinians will not back down from their demand that Israel halt all settlement activity ahead of any new talks.
"President Abbas will confirm during his meeting with Mitchell that the Palestinian side is adhering to its obligations and will continue to do so," Erakat told AFP, referring to the improved security situation in the West Bank.
"But he will also renew his demand that the United States intervene to completely halt settlement activity in the Palestinian territories."
The two sides last revived peace talks in November 2007 after a seven-year hiatus. Those negotiations made little progress and were suspended with the outbreak on December 27 of the three-week Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu has said the Palestinians must recognise Israel as a "Jewish state," a condition the Palestinians have repeatedly rejected.
"We have proved more than once that we are ready to make concessions for peace," Netanyahu told members of his Likud Party last week, referring to the 1979 peace deal with Egypt concluded when the party was in power.
"There is one thing we are not willing to do -- we are not willing to delude ourselves, or in common terms, we are not suckers," Netanyahu said.
The Palestinians have rejected Israel's demand that they recognise its Jewish character of Israel, calling it an attempt to side-step the thorny issue of Palestinian refugees who claim the right to return to Israel.
Both sides also remain deeply divided on the other issues that have bedeviled negotiators since the early 1990s -- final borders, water rights, the fate of the settlements and the status of Jerusalem.
US President Barack Obama has vowed to return the two sides to the negotiating table and in past months his administration has put unprecedented pressure on Israel to halt settlement activity.
Nearly a half-million Jewish settlers live alongside around 2.5 million Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, lands captured by Israel in the 1967 war and claimed by the Palestinians as part of their future state.
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US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell holds a press conference in Cairo in July. Mitchell was to make a final push to revive Middle East peace talks during a visit to the region Sunday ahead of the annual UN General Assembly meeting later this month.
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