Obama envoy seeks to quell doubts on Mideast peace
diplomatic effort. leader, George Mitchell, Obama troubleshooter for the region, insisted the administration bid to achieve an Israeli Palestinian peace deal within a year was realistic.
But underscoring the daunting challenges, four Israelis uk canada goose outlet were killed in the occupied West Bank on Canada Goose Jackets Tuesday in an attack claimed by Hamas as an cheap Canada Goose assault on the fledgling peace process.
News of the ambush came after Mitchell briefed reporters on the agenda for Obama separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas canada goose black friday sale on Wednesday followed by a resumption of face to face negotiations on Thursday.
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On the prospects for completing a peace accord in just 12 months time, Mitchell said, Canada Goose online believe that it can be done.
Many Israelis canada goose uk outlet and Palestinians are canada goose coats deeply pessimistic about the first direct talks in 20 months, and most canada goose store analysts see little chance of a breakthrough given the level of distrust.
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FIRST TEST? Obama aides were working behind the scenes trying to resolve what Canada Goose Online is seen as the first major test for the revived peace process the looming September 26 expiration of partial freeze on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.
The canada goose uk shop Palestinians have threatened to pull out of the talks unless the 10 month moratorium is cagooseclearance extended, but Netanyahu, who heads a government dominated by pro settler parties including his own, has given no sign he is ready to take that step.
Mitchell stopped short of pressing Netanyahu to keep the moratorium, canadian goose jacket but urged both sides to refrain from actions that would peace efforts.
Abbas comes to the talks weakened by Hamas Islamists control of Gaza while he governs only in the West Bank. The group, whose charter calls for Israel destruction, made clear with Tuesday attack it hopes to disrupt the negotiations.
Speaking Canada Goose Coats On Sale before the ambush, Mitchell said Hamas would be welcome in the peace process if it dropped its cheap canada goose uk refusal to renounce violence and accept democratic norms.
Mitchell, who helped broker a Northern Ireland peace deal, even drew a loose analogy to the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fein canada goose coats on sale initial refusal to enter negotiations.
Mitchell said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan King Abdullah would attend the summit to help promote broader Arab Israeli Cheap Canada Goose Parka peace and that the United States was still working to reconcile canada goose factory sale the Jewish state with Syria and Lebanon.
Mitchell acknowledged that developments in the West standoff with Iran, Israel arch foe, could influence the Middle East peace process but declined to buy canada goose jacket elaborate.
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