British Under Secretary of State: ‘Israel faces isolation if US peace push fails’.(TOI).
Israel will face unprecedented isolation if the current attempts at restarting the peace process fail, British Under Secretary of State Alistair Burt warned on Wednesday.
“The pressures will mount,” Burt said in an interview with Army Radio. “Israel’s risk of isolation becomes ever greater, unless a solution is found.”
Since taking office on February 1, US Secretary of State John Kerry has made four trips to Israel and the Palestinian territories, more than any other destination, in an ongoing attempt to bring the two sides together for talks after a years-long hiatus. Kerry was scheduled to make a fifth trip to Israel this week, but postponed it to attend meetings in Washington on the Syrian civil war.
Burt, a former member of Conservative Friends of Israel who currently holds the Middle East portfolio at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, expressed his opposition to Palestinian demands for a building freeze in the West Bank as a precondition to negotiations. “Neither side should be in the business of demanding preconditions,” Burt stressed. “Both sides should recognize that if a two-state solution is to be the answer, then the time to get on with that is very much now.”
“Should this not be successful,” he added, “I think the United Kingdom would be extremely worried about the outcome.”Hmmmm.......Kerry: "I Will Implement 'President Obama's Vision For The World".Read the full story here.
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