Quartet meeting

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Faced with an impasse in the peace process, the Palestinian leaders, who repeatedly refer to the "South African model" of non-violent emancipation, are determined to proclaim their own state before September.

Meanwhile, the Middle East Quartet seeking to negotiate a peace deal are expected to meet Friday and work on a text for resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which had been delayed by the United States, diplomats at the United Nations said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110418...iniandiplomacy

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If that UN diplomat is right, then they are meeting on Good Friday??????
And of course Passover week started today.

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Remember this..

US President Barack Obama will lay out US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the coming weeks, Clinton told Arab and US policy makers in a speech that placed particular emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace.

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ad.php?t=34549

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'Quartet may recognize Palestinian state'

Foreign diplomats warn that if Netanyahu fails to present new peace plan soon, superpowers may officially endorse Palestinian state in 1967 border, with east Jerusalem as its capital

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...058472,00.html


Report: Quartet may formally recognize Palestinian state if peace talks not renewed

American and European diplomats warned that if peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are not renewed, the Quartet of Mideast peace makers may formally recognize a Palestinian state, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...newed-1.356742


Quartet reportedly weighing endorsement of state.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=217173

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Off subject just slightly

President Barack Obama told an “Easter Prayer Breakfast” held at the White House on Tuesday morning that the resurrection of Our Savior Jesus Christ puts everything in perspective.

“I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason--because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there’s something about the resurrection--something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective,” Obama told a group of Christian clergymen and government officials in a brief speech in the East Room.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...ior-jesus-chri

US helped Israel contain UN Gaza war probe: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110419...unconflictgaza

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PM: Recognition of Jewish state is 'core of the conflict'
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...ID=217181&R=R1

It almost seems Bibi is counting the fact the Palestinians will never do it.
If so then the peace talks are still going no where.