As we said repeatedly in the build-up to Sunday’s gathering in Paris of representatives of 70 countries to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue, AJC has long supported the search for an enduring peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state accord.
It is precisely in that spirit that we voiced our concerns about this conference, believing it would be irrelevant at best, harmful at worst, to the pursuit of a deal.
Our concerns, following the conference’s conclusions, can be summed up in five points.
First, as should have been crystal-clear by now, the Palestinians have avoided the only place where …read more
Source: The Huffington Post