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March 30, 2015

France to Advance Israel-Palestine Measure at U.N., Testing U.S. Veto 
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France has announced plans to put forward a U.N. Security Council
measure aimed at encouraging peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said the
measure would include "parameters" for negotiations, presumably based on
an Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories.

Laurent Fabius: "France has been supporting a resolution of the U.N.,
defining the parameters and helping and accompanying the necessary
negotiations between the two parties. We have not changed our mind. And
in the coming weeks, in relation with the different parties, France will
be part and parcel of proposing a resolution in the U.N."

The Obama administration has signaled it might not block a U.N.
resolution in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
pre-election rejection of Palestinian statehood and his anti-Arab
fear-mongering. In an apparent bid to reduce tensions with the United
States, Netanyahu has announced he will release three months of tax
revenue to the Palestinian Authority. Israel began withholding the funds
in response to the Palestinian effort to join the International Criminal
Court. Palestinian officials had recently warned the denial of their tax
revenue threatened economic collapse.

 

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