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New Mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

It seems the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is entering quite a complicated stage. Mutual attacks, airstrikes still continue and in addition to all these, there are rumors that Hamas is negotiating with Israel to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which as it is said, caused to the resignation of the Palestinian unity government.

Right today, on June 21 at the entrance of Old City of Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli paramilitary policeman, as a result of which now both men are injured, Reuters reports. Earlier, on Friday near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank two Israel hikers were shot by a suspected Palestinian. As a result, one man was killed and the other wounded.

This, of course, shows that no matter, how much the sides speak about the necessity of peaceful settlement of the conflict, the sides both on the state level and on the level of society have not come to an understanding that with such incidents the situation turns even tenser and to speak about any reconciliation becomes senseless.  

In a a two-day trip to the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on Israel and Palestine to return to the negotiating table, Al Jazeera reports.

"We have to do the maximum so that the two sides restart negotiations. We think that by doing nothing there will be the twin risk of stalemate and setting [the conflict] ablaze," he said. Fabius suggested to relaunch the negotiations with the mediation of Arab states, the European Union and UN Security Council members.

As the source informs, after meeting key Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, Fabius said they had agreed to push this initiative ahead and work towards creating the international contact group.

But what about the US that has so many years been the mediator in these talks? Will Israel agree with this format at all? Surely no, and this was already declared by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He said that he rejects any international roposals meant to bring about a unilateral solution to the conflict with the Palestinians against Israel’s will, the Times of Israel reports. Aside from this there is another important question - what about the rumors on Hamas-Israel talks with the mediation of the EU? Many questions and no exact answers.

 

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