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US Official: International Consensus and Law Not Keys to Resolving
Arab-Israeli Dispute

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - A senior U.S. official tasked with finding a solution
   to the Israeli-Palestinian issue told the United Nations Tuesday that
   international law and consensus are not the keys to resolving the
   decades-old dispute.

   "Those who continue to call for international consensus on this
   conflict are doing nothing to encourage the parties to sit down at the
   negotiating table and make the hard compromises necessary for peace,"
   Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt
   told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. "In fact, they are doing
   the opposite - allowing people to hide behind words that mean nothing."
   Greenblatt said that international consensus isoften"nothing more thana
   mask for inaction."
   "So let's stop kidding ourselves. If aso-calledinternational consensus
   had been able to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it would
   have done so decades ago. It didn't," he said. "This conflictis also
   notgoing to be resolved by reference to "international law"when such
   law is inconclusive."
   

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