Secretary of State John Kerry

Putin Throws Down the Gauntlet

Kerry is in for a big surprise on Tuesday. He’s about to learn that Putin takes war very seriously and is not going to let Washington sabotage his plans for success. If Kerry’s smart, he’ll pass along that message to Obama and tell him he needs to dial it down a notch if he wants to avoid a war with Russia.

 

by Mike Whitney

“Unhelpful” to blame anyone for peace talks breakdown

…. says British government. Support Kerry and return to pointless negotiations.

by Stuart Littlewood

 
(London) – Britain’s Foreign Office, presided over by William Hague, has come up with the most fatuous response so far to the collapse of the latest peace talks stage-managed, as always, by Israel’s partner in crime, America. Here it is……..
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The New York Times Declares the Peace Process Futile – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson

Part I

 In 1988 Yasser Arafat declared independence for Palestine based upon the notion of two states living in peace in historic Palestine. The border between those two states was to be set roughly at the armistice line established at the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Palestinian state’s capital was to be located in East Jerusalem.