Current ‘pause’ in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations ‘untenable’

Outgoing European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday that the current “pause” in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations was “untenable in the long run.”  One reason, he said, is that a “simple pause can bring about further deterioration in the situation.” Barroso said the EU understood that Israel needed “robust assurances” that peace would increase – not decrease – the country’s security and must lead to an “end to the conflict once and for all…

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