The Independent: Russia: Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet for talks in Moscow
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed to meet on an unspecified date
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed in principle to meet in Moscow, in what would be their first face-to-face meeting in years.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed that an agreement had taken place on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
No date has been given for the meeting. “The most important thing is to pick the right timing,” Ms Zakharova added.
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For this to have any chance of working, the parties are going to need to be treated respectfully as equals. US brokered talks broke down because they were woefully one sided to favor the Palestinians. In such an environment, the Palestinians had no incentive to make any compromises and the Israelis are obviously not going to commit suicde to appease the Americans or anyone else. Essentially Mr. Putin and his team are going to need to adopt a more even handed approach for this to have any chance of success.
The international community will need to cut off all aid to the Palestinians or at least make it highly conditional like the aid the Israelus receive from America. Doing this would put the parties on a more equal footing. In such an environment the Palestinians might have sone incentive to negotiate in good faith. Right now they have none.
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