[Heaven] Axelrod: After Other Negotiations, We'll Turn Steely Eyes Toward Jerusalem
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Axelrod:
After Other Negotiations, We'll Turn
Steely
Eyes Toward Jerusalem
White
House senior adviser David Axelrod
told The
Jerusalem Post on Tuesday
that
Jerusalem will likely be the final
issue
addressed in Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations. “Jerusalem as an issue
can’t be the first issue for
negotiations.
It probably will be the last,”
Axelrod
said, characterizing the position of
US
President Barack Obama and the
message he
understood Obama to have conveyed
during a
lunch meeting with Nobel laureate
Elie
Wiesel. The meeting came as
US-brokered
indirect talks between Israelis and
Palestinians are expected to begin
in the
coming days, despite differences
between the
sides over whether final-status
issues would
be discussed. While Israel prefers
issues
such as Jerusalem to be deferred
until
direct negotiations, the US has
indicated
that final-status issues will at
least be
broached in the early talks as the
Palestinians have been demanding.
The issue
of Jerusalem derailed the expected
start of
indirect negotiations in March, when
the
Interior Ministry approved
additional Jewish
housing in east Jerusalem during a
visit to
Israel by Vice President Joe Biden
meant to
launch the process, a move that
infuriated
the Americans and the Palestinians.
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