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    Quartet to meet in effort to revive Mideast talks

    BRUSSELS (AP) — Mideast negotiators will seek ways to restart the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process during a meeting planned for this weekend, the European Union said Friday.

    The meeting Sunday comes amid international pressure to reach a peace deal, fueled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' request two weeks ago that the U.N. recognize an independent Palestinian state. The gathering will include envoys from U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russia, known as the Quartet.

    "The purpose is to review progress and keep up the momentum, with the overall objective of encouraging the parties to return to negotiations," EU spokesman Michael Mann said.

    The U.N. Security Council — the only body that can bestow full membership — is reviewing the Palestinian request. But Washington has already pledged to veto any such resolution, saying it would worsen prospects for a peace accord.

    Negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel have been on hold since 2008.

    Mediators from the Quartet have met sporadically in a so-far fruitless effort to bring the two sides together again.

    The Quartet has proposed a resumption in negotiations with the goal of having a peace agreement by the end of 2012.

    Israel has accepted the proposal with unspecified reservations while the Palestinians have said they will not return to talks until Israel freezes settlement activity and recognizes the pre-1967 frontier as a baseline for border talks.

    But prospects for any substantial progress in resolving the stand-off appear dim after Israel's latest announcement that it would build 1,100 new housing units in east Jerusalem.

    "We don't expect anything concrete to come out of (Sunday's) meeting," said a diplomat from a Quartet nation who could not be named under standing rules.

    While Quartet envoys — usually ambassadors — meet frequently, foreign ministers have so far held talks only three times this year, including on Sept. 23 in New York.

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    54 comments

    • Andy  •  7 mths ago
      What a colossal waste of time and money.
    • A Ashtar  •  7 mths ago
      Why would the Palestinians want to revive "peace talks?" The Palestinians become "peaceful" and Israel builds more settlements on disputed land. It never ends. Peace costs the Palestinians so why would they want to sit at the table. How many billions of US taxpayor money is Obama going to pay them, so he can get the US Jewish vote by denying the Palestinians freedom, democracy and a country of their own?
    • Captain Drake  •  7 mths ago
      Does anyone know how many times the 'Middle East talks' have been 'revived' - and does anyone think (or believe) that this will get sorted this time....... nope, thought not.... But we live in hope I suppose.....sigh!
    • Thor  •  7 mths ago
      Who here from the US on this blog would donate a 1.00 from their tax return to a nonprofit US taxpayer support lobby to buy back our votes from the likes of AIPAC. Obviously the Jew moles will hammer this one but there has to be vast amounts of the general population that’s just about had it with 5 million Jews dictating every facet of our lives.
    • 2012  •  7 mths ago
      Middle East "talks" have been going on since I was 12, I'm 61 now.
    • 2012  •  7 mths ago
      You have to give the Christians credit for patience. 2,000 years waiting on the Messiah and 50 years on a Jewish peace treaty.
    • Otto Pilot  •  7 mths ago
      They would have better luck with a barbershop quartet.
    • GS  •  7 mths ago
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    • GS  •  7 mths ago
      What does the quartet members do besides master baiting each other!
    • 2012  •  7 mths ago
      If their is an afterlife every time the TSA sticks his hand down my pants or the Jews drags us to the brink of another world war Adolf and Osama have a big laugh.
    • Scott  •  7 mths ago
      A Communist, a Muslim and a Black man walk into a bar... The bartender asks... What will you have Mr. President?
      • Besidon 7 mths ago
        Sott, I can see what kind of person you are. I am happy that people can clearly tell how racist #$%$ you are. :-)
      • usmc 7 mths ago
        hey scott get back in your trailer your filth is stinking up our country .
    • The Truth  •  7 mths ago
      The Nazis occupied other people's land .. Israel occupies other people's land
      The Nazis massacred other people .. Israel massacres other people
      The Nazis abused other people .. Israel abuses other people
      The Nazis caused havoc and destruction .. Israel causes havoc and destruction
      The Nazis killed for no reason.. Israel kills just because they can
      The Nazis killed women and children.. Israel kills women, children, and infants
      The Nazis depended on themselves, Israel is a parasite that lives off of others
      The Nazis respected the culture of others .. Israel denies the existence of any other culture

      Which of the two, Nazis or Israel, would you prefer?????

      Both are really evil, but Israel has many more evils than the Nazis ....
      • GS 7 mths ago
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    • Jon  •  7 mths ago
      the entire Palie narrative is bogus. I say, "Let's nuke the Arab world, and live in a paradise."
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        your already doing this, but slowly.
      • usmc 7 mths ago
        hey jon get back in your cage your stinking up our country .
    • A Ashtar  •  7 mths ago
      Every time Palestine "threatens" to ask for statehood, the hoods get together to try to threaten Palestine and the promise a carrot. Obama threatens a veto and withholds promised humanitarian funds for food, then sends representatives to buy off Palestine.
    • Scott  •  7 mths ago
      Hate filled, Murderous, Muslim Trash. If they Murder enough innocent people that they have never met, they are rewarded with an Orgy in heaven with a bunch of virgins. Sick, evil, perverted Religion.
    • FREDERICK2660  •  7 mths ago
      ##35125.10/07/11
      Quartet to meet in effort to revive Mideast talks (AP)

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      © 2011, Frederick2660
      All Rights Reserved
    • GS  •  7 mths ago
      The Truth

      Your mother copulated a mucus.

      Voila

      You are it!

      YIKES
      • The Truth 7 mths ago
        What would anybody expect from somebody whose name is #$%$ "Bull Shet"?? Like all zionists, everything you generate stinks.
    • Rich-  •  7 mths ago
      WHAT A WASTE OF TIME
    • NGP  •  7 mths ago
      The quartet?, by all they have done, sounds more like a circle jerk. The quartet has been played by the israelis and it is dancing to the israeli tune. The U.S. and the E.U. are puppets of the israeli lobbies
      and the Russians were more than glad to take rid of the slav jews from Russia
    • B  •  7 mths ago
      If Netnyahoo was in the US he'd be labelded an anchor baby. His parents are Russians and he was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Philly... Think about that for a second.
      • M C 7 mths ago
        Ok thought about it. Don't care. Muslims should die. The end.
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