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by Mary Beth Sheridan and Janine Zacharia
President Obama will embark on his deepest foray into Middle East peacemaking next month when he hosts Israeli and Pales- tinian leaders in a bid to achieve what his predecessors could not: a deal to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel and end the two sides’ bitter conflict. Secretary of State Hillary Rod-
ham Clinton announced Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Bin- yamin Netanyahu and Palestin- ian President Mahmoud Abbas are expected in Washington on Sept. 2 for what will be the first face-to-face negotiations be- tween the sides in two years. Clinton said she thinks a deal could be reached within a year. The announcement marked a small victory for Obama, who had pledged to address the con- flict early in his term but faces a daunting challenge in pulling off an agreement. “Without a doubt, we will hit more obstacles,” Clinton said. “The enemies of peace will keep trying to defeat us and to derail these talks. But I ask the parties to persevere.” The first big test for the re-
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newed peace process will prob- ably be the scheduled expiration Sept. 26 of a 10-month freeze by Israel on new settlement con- struction in the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967. Israel has sought to ensure that the United States will not call openly for a continuation of the freeze. In a nod to those concerns,
Clinton said talks “should take place without preconditions.” But Middle East envoy George J. Mitchell hinted that Netanyahu would be under pressure to ex- tend the freeze, saying that both sides should “refrain from taking any steps that are not conducive to making progress.” Mitchell has been conducting shuttle di- plomacy between the antago- nists for months. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestin-
ian negotiator, said it is vital the moratorium be continued. “The non-extension of the
moratorium on settlements will mean that we will not have nego- tiations. It’s as simple as this,” Erekat told CNN. The Palestin- ians see the West Bank as the main part of their future home- land, along with the Gaza Strip. Shlomo Brom, a former Israeli peace negotiator, said the U.S. government had pressed to launch talks soon “to prevent a crisis in September” when the freeze expires. He described the outlook for the negotiations as grim, how- ever, saying that Netanyahu will
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not offer as many concessions to the Palestinians as former Israeli premiers did. Another difficulty is the split
between the West Bank and Ga- za. The latter is run by Abbas’s ri- val, the Islamic militant group Hamas, which the United States and others label a terrorist group. Many say that the split un-
dercuts Abbas’s ability to negoti- ate a comprehensive peace deal. In the run-up to Friday’s an- nouncement, rocket fire from Gaza targeting Israel has contin- ued sporadically. Hamas on Fri- day rejected the idea of new peace talks. Hany al-Masri, who has been
trying to negotiate reconciliation with Hamas on Abbas’s behalf, said resuming negotiations is “political suicide” for the Pales- tinian president. “This will continue to weaken him, not only in front of his peo- ple, but inside the [Palestine Lib- eration Organization], because Israel will continue to build set- tlements,” Masri said. Mitchell was more optimistic. Appearing with Clinton at the State Department, he noted that both Netanyahu and Abbas had said they believed a peace accord could be concluded within a year. Since the 1993 Oslo Accords
that formally launched the peace process, there have been several Palestinian-Israeli summits, none of which produced a final agreement.
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Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, said the presence of a right-wing leader at the helm of Israel’s govern- ment could be a plus in the new talks. In the past, “when centrists or
leftist Israeli governments nego- tiated, the right wing was always opposed,” said Indyk, now direc- tor of foreign policy at the Brook- ings Institution. “The fact that now Prime Minister Netanyahu, a right-wing leader, is committed to a one-year negotiation to re- solve all of the issues . . . is im- portant,” he said. The probable outlines of any
Israeli-Palestinian agreement are well known. Israel would give up most of the West Bank; the Palestinians would allow some Israeli settlements to remain. Jerusalem would serve as the capital of both states. And people of Palestinian origin living abroad would have the right to return to the state of Palestine, but not to Israel, except in spe- cial cases. “The degree of difficulty is not
in finding the zone of agreement. The degree of difficulty lies in po- litical leaders deciding that they’re going to make the deal,” Indyk said.
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The security firm formerly known as Blackwater will pay $42 million in fines to settle thou- sands of violations of U.S. export- control regulations, according to a published report Friday night. The settlement agreement cov- ers alleged sniper training for Tai- wanese police officers, illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan and making unauthorized pro- posals to train troops in south Su- dan, the New York Times report- ed. The State Department re- quires government approval before certain types of military
technology or knowledge is trans- ferred to other countries. The settlement involves prac- tices from before Blackwater was rebranded as Xe Services. A spokeswoman for the
Moyock, N.C.-based company confirmed the deal to the Associ- ated Press but did not immedi- ately know the amount. A State Department spokesman said he was unaware of the settlement. Blackwater provided guards and services to the U.S. govern- ment in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The defense contrac- tor has been trying to rehabilitate its image since a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that killed 17 people.
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