++In a bizarre twist to the Mideast Peace Talks,there was discussion the Obama Administration offered the release of Israeli spy, American Jonathan Pollard, so the talks can continue. Through an Israeli diplomat, Pollard denounced the deal.
++Things are not looking good for the talks being mediated by John Kerry. The Israelis refused to release the last batch of PLO prisoners and the Palestinians won't recognize Israel as a "Jewish State."
++The Palestinians look like there are abandoning any hope of the talks and have suggested publicly they will be going to the UN for recognition of the state of Palestine. Don't count this out since Israel won recognition as a state from the United Nations.
++Another Palestinian gambit is their offer to ratify raft of international conventions as the state of Palestine.
++Observers of Israeli politics observe that Netanyahu has lost control of his coalition aren't couldn't bring the horse to water if he tried.
++If one version is that Israel has escaped the bullet by thwarting the peace process,then the warnings by John Kerry look real--further isolation and the divestment campaign will ramp up.
++The U.S. Congress is engaging in rearguard actions by threatening to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority if they move in the direction of the UN.
++The tragedy is that the West has never had a malleable leader as Mahmoud Abbas to negotiate with. He in fact said so and warned in the future the there will be someone else--more militant.
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