By Marney Blom
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed US Secretary of State John Kerry to Jerusalem today.
” … above all, what we want to do is to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians,” said the Israeli PM. “It’s something I want, it is something you want. It’s something I hope the Palestinians want as well and we ought to be successful for a simple reason. When there is a will, we’ll find a way. ”
Kerry agrees. This is his fourth visit to the Holy Land in two months. Buoyed by the recent ground breaking endorsement by the Arab League of a two state solution based on 1967 borders with “comparable and mutually agreed minor swaps of land” – translated Jewish settlements remaining in the West bank – Kerry hopes to bring both sides back to negotiations.
Many Israelis remain skeptical. Ofer Shelah, faction head of Yesh Atid – Israel’s second largest political party – quipped, “Any intelligent person knows there won’t be an agreement with the Palestinians without [dividing] Jerusalem.”
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