LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
A protest was held in New York City against the planned release of 104 terrorist from Israeli prisons. The rally was organized by Americans for a Safe Israel. It was held in front of the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yreuLJ5k8
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Protest in New York Against Terrorist Prison Release-INN
A protest was held in New York City against the planned release of 104 terrorist from Israeli prisons. The rally was organized by Americans for a Safe Israel. It was held in front of the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan.
Danon: Livni Won't Think About Judea and Samaria
In
New York, Deputy Defense Minister warns that the interests of Judea and
Samaria will not be represented by the negotiating team.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 7/31/2013, 4:46 AM-INN
As Israeli and Palestinian Authority negotiators met in Washington
to restart peace talks, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) was
in the U.S. as well, presenting his own view on the talks.
Danon, who also heads the Likud Central Committee, visited the offices of 5W Public Relations in New York, where he warned that Judea and Samaria had no representation at the talks.“I don’t like
the fact that Tzipi Livni is the chief negotiator of the State of
Israel along with Abu Alaa and Martin Indyk,” Danon stated during the
meeting. “Who is representing us? Who thinks about the Jews who are
living in Judea and Samaria? No
one! It was proven that all of them, in the past 10 years, were willing
to sign agreements that were bad for Israel.”He admitted
that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could legally take an agreement
with the Palestinian Authority and bring it to a referendum, bypassing
the Likud Central Committee.
“Legally, he can bypass the Likud party,”
said Danon. “Sharon did that in the past. Sharon went even further: He
went to a referendum among the Likud members, lost, ignored it and went
ahead with the Disengagement.”Netanyahu could “cook” a peace agreement with the PA and then bring it to the public for a referendum, warned Danon.Danon recently spoke out against a two-state solution
to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict, and said that if Netanyahu brings
the issue of a Palestinian state to a vote in the government, nobody
will vote in favor.Livni quickly denounced Danon's remarks, saying, "The prime minister
must decide if he is going to allow 'Danonism' to control the debate or
if he will let forces that understand that a diplomatic solution is in
Israel's interest make a decision.”She and members of her Hatnua party later worked behind the scenes
to enlist the Yesh Atid party into a bloc within the coalition that
would promote negotiations and work against the so-called
“Danonism”.Initially, Yesh Atid responded positively to Hatnua’s
overtures, but following an inquiry from the Maariv daily, sources in Yesh Atid reportedly said they would rethink this positive attitude – because no one consulted them about talking to the media.
Lieberman: You Can't Make Peace with a Holocaust Denier
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a Holocaust denier and did a PhD about it, reminds MK Avigdor Lieberman.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 7/31/2013, 3:12 AM-Israelnationalnews
MKs Shimon Ohayon and Avigdor Lieberman-Hezki Ezra
MK Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, predicted on Tuesday that peace with the Palestinian Authority will never be possible because of its leadership.
Speaking at a
meeting of the newly founded Knesset Lobby to Combat Anti-Semitism
which is headed by MK Shimon Ohayon (Yisrael Beytenu), Lieberman
reminded participants that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a Holocaust denier,
whose doctoral dissertation was entitled “The Connection between the
Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement.”"There cannot
be true peace or a diplomatic process with someone who denies the
Holocaust,” said Lieberman. “Abbas’s book in which he denies the
Holocaust is on the bookshelf in my office. I do not recall that any of
those who welcomed the peace process reminded Abbas of his denial of the
Holocaust, which he continues to do in media interviews."He added,
"When I was Foreign Minister, every time a respected person would come
to my office and tell me that Abbas wants peace, I would show him
Mahmoud Abbas’s book in which he denies the Holocaust.""Modern
anti-Semitism today is in the Palestinian Authority," Lieberman stated.
“You should see the PA’s textbooks that do not teach the next
generation, the so-called generation of peace, about the Holocaust.
These are our so-called partners for peace...”As Israel and the PA prepare to sit down yet again for another round of talks, PA television has been continuing to broadcast anti-Israel and anti-Semitic programs and songs.In a “music video” first released in 2011 and re-released over the
past several days, Israel is called “the snake's head” which needs to be
crushed by Arab rifles. It comes only days after another PA program honored arch-terrorist Abdallah Barghouti for his role in the murder of 61 Israelis in a string of atrocities.
On Monday, Abbas presented a racist and hateful vision of a future Palestinian state, when he said in Cairo that “Palestine” would not have “a single Israeli – civilian or soldier.”Arab affairs
expert Dalit Halevi explained that when Abbas spoke of “Israelis”, he in
fact meant “Jews." She pointed out that the PA refers to all of the
Arabs who live in what they term “Palestine” – including “Israeli Arabs”
– as Palestinians. There is, therefore, no distinction in the PA's
approach between “Palestinians” and “Arabs,” and similarly no
distinction between “Jews” and “Israelis,” when speaking of residents of
the territory of the Land of Israel (“Palestine”)
Quartet to Israel and PA: Don't 'Undermine' the Talks
The
Quartet issues a joint call on Israel and the Palestinian Authority not
to "undermine trust" as they embark on peace talks.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 7/31/2013, 2:13 AM-Israelnationalnews
US State Dept. Briefing on Israel-PA Talks-frame of video
The United
States, Russia, European Union and United Nations - known as the Quartet
- on Tuesday made a joint call on Israel and the Palestinian Authority
not to "undermine trust" as they embark on peace talks, reported AFP.
The
diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East said it was determined to support
the two sides' "shared commitment to achieve a negotiated two-state
solution within the agreed timeframe of nine months."
The Quartet
"calls on all parties to take every possible step to promote conditions
conducive to the success of the negotiating process and to refrain from
actions that undermine trust," said a joint statement quoted by AFP.The group
praised the "courageous decision" of Palestinian Authority Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to launch
the talks which started in Washington on Monday.
Envoys from the Quartet, which was set up to promote a road map toward peace between Israel and the PA, would meet "soon", the statement said."While noting
that much hard work lies ahead, the Quartet expresses its hope that
renewed negotiations will be substantive and continuous and set a clear
path towards a two-state solution, the end of conflict, and lasting
peace and security for both Israelis and Palestinians," said the
statement, according to AFP.Earlier Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed his government's commitment
to a "two-state solution" between Israel and the PA, as he summed up
the initial progress made between the sides.Speaking at a brief news conference
with Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni and PA negotiator Saeb Erekat,
Kerry noted was that "all final status issues... core issues and all
other issues are all on the table."Kerry also declared that the meetings - scheduled
to restart some time in the next two weeks and continue over the course
of nine months - will be held in complete secrecy.U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that he was "hopeful" about the renewed talks. .Obama, who travelled to Israel in March for his first visit to the region
as president, met with Livni and Erekat. He has welcomed the start of
new talks as a "promising step" forward, and promised U.S. support as
the two sides mull the "hard choices" facing them.Senior US Officials: Talks will ease pressure on Israel at UN
Before declaring restart of talks Obama personally called Netanyahu to gauge his committment, says White House source
July 31, 2013, 9:42 am
0-The Times of Israel
Prior to the announcement of
renewed talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, US President
Barack Obama made a personal phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, a senior White House official revealed Tuesday evening.
During the closed-door briefing, two senior administration officials
also said that they expected pressure on Israel at the United Nations to
be somewhat reduced by the resumption of talks.
“The
Palestinians throughout the course of this year have been making clear
that if they couldn’t see progress on the peace front, that their
intention would be to seek other elevations of their status, whether at
the UN or other international organizations, which is not something that
the United States supports, but is something that could have created a
significant amount of friction with Israel and really interrupted the
progress we want to see in the region,” one of the two officials said
Tuesday.“So it’s no secret that one of the motivating
factors, I think for everybody, was to avoid that sort of train wreck
that would have happened, that might have happened, if we weren’t able
to get negotiations started,” the official added.The United Nations General Assembly, an annual
meeting that in recent years has seen its fair share of anti-Israel
efforts by Palestinians and their supporters, is scheduled to be held in
mid-September.Speaking under the condition of anonymity, one
of the two, a senior State Department official, revealed that Kerry had
placed as a precondition for resumption of talks that the negotiations
would aim at reaching a final status agreement – and not “talks for the
sake of talks.” In advance of those talks, the White House official
said, Obama called Netanyahu mere days before Kerry announced the
resumption of negotiations.The second official, a senior official at the
White House, said Obama and his advisers “were impressed with the
outlook and the atmosphere” of the opening round of peace talks, held
over the past two days in Washington DC. “It really does appear that
these negotiators are coming to it with the seriousness that will be
necessary to tackle the challenges ahead,” the official said.Also speaking on the condition of anonymity, a
senior State Department official said that US mediators had witnessed
“final status negotiations, direct final status negotiations between the
parties today.”
The Israelis and the Palestinians, the State
Department official said, devoted a “fair amount” of time to discussing
whether or not to prioritize specific topics for negotiation or to put
all of them on the table concurrently.“There are certain modalities that need to be
worked out between the parties,” the official added. “We agreed on the
next meeting, which will take place in the region within the next two
weeks,” the official added.The official said that the message that
Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to convey is that he understands
that the talks are “going to be very, very hard, and it’s going to take
some very, very tough choices by the leaders if we’re going to get where
we were all trying to get to.”Kerry, the
official said, was “very encouraged by the decisions that Prime Minister
Netanyahu took in the last days to – agreement to release prisoners, a
tough, tough fight he had with his cabinet.” He said that the prime
minister had sent a message to Israelis “making the case for peace” and
described Netanyahu’s actions as “extraordinarily encouraging signs as
far as we were concerned, and I think really took some courage and some
leadership from Prime Minister Netanyahu.”The State
Department official added that “by the same token, President Abbas made a
very difficult decision,” but did not detail what exactly the decision
was.Addressing the brief meeting held Tuesday
among Obama and the top negotiators for both sides, the senior White
House official said that Obama “is fully aware, and made clear to the
parties, that there is an awful lot of difficult work to do in the days
and months ahead” and that “he personally is ready to engage to support
the process.”
The official said that following the
president’s March trip to the Middle East, including Israel, “he came
away from that trip convinced that peace was both necessary and
possible, and so he asked the Secretary to follow up and to do
everything he could to get a negotiation started again after quite a
long hiatus.”
The two officials also revealed that in the
coming weeks, the public will hear about “steps forward on the economic
front”, most likely framed around the Quartet’s economic initiative. The
economic development, the official later added, will not come through
US appropriation of money for assistance to the Palestinian Authority,
but rather “to leverage the private sector into making very, very
significant investments into the West Bank and also to Gaza Strip.”The White House official said that the
administration perceived a new opportunity for talks due to changing
conditions in the Middle East, and particularly concerning Israel. The
official enumerated a list of changes that impacted the immediacy for
the renewed talks, including the recent elections in both Israel and the
United States, “a new dynamic vis-à-vis the United Nations”, and the
impact of the Arab Spring, particularly in Israel’s neighbors Egypt and
Syria.
All issues to be on the table, Kerry says as peace talks kick off
Secretary says teams will meet again in two weeks in Middle East to begin substantive discussions; Obama, Biden meet sides at White House to express support for final status effort
July 30, 2013, 7:22 pm
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THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
“I’m
convinced we can get there,” an upbeat Kerry said.Calling the initial
engagement positive and
constructive, Kerry said the upcoming nine months of talks would seek to
resolve all issues between the parties, seemingly shelving any notion
of an interim agreement.“The parties have agreed to remain engaged in
sustained, continuous and substantive negotiations on the core issues,”
Kerry told reporters at a press conference. “The parties have agreed
that all the final status issues, all the core issues and all other
issues are all on the table for negotiations.”Kerry’s statement, made an
hour later than
planned, came after over three hours of meetings between the sides,
including a joint session with US President Barack Obama at the White
House.Kerry said the sides would meet again in two
weeks in Israel or the Palestinian Authority to begin the process of
“formal negotiations.”“A viable two-state solution is the only way this
conflict can end and there is not much time to achieve it,” he
said.Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, representing the
Israeli side along with Yitzhak Molcho, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s personal envoy to the talks, said she was “hopeful for talks
but could not be naive, we cannot afford it in our region.”“It’s not
going to be easy. It’s going to be
hard with ups and downs, but I can assure you that in these negotiations
it is not our intention to argue about the past but to make decisions
for the future,” she said.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the
Palestinians were happy to see that all issues would be discussed in the
talks, which are expected to last nine months.“I am delighted that all
final status issues
will be resolved, without any exceptions,” he said. “It’s time for the
Palestinians to live in peace, freedom and dignity within their own
sovereign state.”Both Livni and Kerry addressed the deep
skepticism that has surrounded the talks, the first round in three years
and the latest of a series of negotiations led by the US, but said
overcoming the pessimism was paramount to success.“While I understand
the skepticism, I don’t share it and I don’t think we have time for it,”
Kerry said.All three diplomats spoke in broad terms,
notably avoiding mention of the 1967 borders, Jerusalem, settlements or
any other issues that will form the heart of the talks. Livni and Kerry
both alluded to Israel’s decision on Sunday to release 104 Palestinian
prisoners, many of them convicted on terror charges, to meet Ramallah’s
precondition for talks.“A courageous act of leadership by Prime
Minister Netanyahu made the visit here and the beginning of negotiations
possible,” Livni said at the press conference.Tuesday’s talks lasted
for approximately three
hours, with the last 45 minutes devoted to trilateral negotiations
between Kerry, Livni and Erekat.The one-day summit was the first
high-level
engagement between the sides since 2010. Livni told Israeli news site
Ynet that the discussion was “held under eight eyes without a mediator.
It was good.”The White House meeting lasted a bit less than
half an hour, with US Vice President Joseph Biden, Kerry, National
Security Administration Chief and former UN envoy Susan Rice, NSC
Coordinator Philip Gordon and the top American negotiator, Martin Indyk,
present on the American side.White House Spokesman Jay Carney said,
“The
president used this opportunity to convey his appreciation to both sides
for the leadership and courage they have shown in coming to the table,
and to directly express his personal support for final-status
negotiations.”Obama, Carney said, emphasized that there was “much to do
in the days and months ahead.”Obama’s meeting with the sides was a shift
for
the president, who has mostly stayed on the sidelines during the last
several months while Kerry has shepherded the two sides to a resumption
of talks.The White House reiterated that Obama was
“engaged” in the process, even if he had delegated the direct
responsibility for overseeing negotiations to Kerry.Before seeing Obama
on Tuesday, the
negotiators met together without American mediators. After leaving the
White House they returned to the State Department for a three-way
meeting with Kerry and top aides.Officials from all parties expressed
cautious
optimism about the negotiations’ prospects for success as they began
Tuesday morning.Speaking from Latvia on a state visit Tuesday, President
Shimon Peres said Israel was hoping for the best.“In the 65 years of
Israel’s existence, during
which we were forced to fight seven wars, we have always aspired for
peace and democracy –- the negotiations started yesterday and we hope
for the best,” Peres said. “Israel’s desire, and the purpose of the
talks, is the creation of two states for two peoples — living side by
side with economic and scientific cooperation.”Hours after the opening
round of talks
concluded Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pitched a resolution
commending Kerry for jumpstarting the negotiations and called on both
sides to push for a two-state solution to guarantee lasting peace.The
resolution was co-sponsored by Senators
Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM). A day earlier, Kaine took
the reins of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Mideast
Subcommittee.“Resolving the longstanding conflict between
the Palestinians and Israelis is in the fundamental interest of the
United States,” Feinstein wrote in a statement Tuesday evening.
“Secretary Kerry’s efforts to get both sides to the negotiating table
have paid off, but negotiators will need to make very difficult
decisions over the next nine months to reach a lasting two-state
agreement.”The senators declared that “a two-state
solution is the only outcome to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which
can ensure the State of Israel’s survival as a secure, democratic
homeland for the Jewish people, and fulfill the legitimate aspirations
of the Palestinian people for a state of their own.”The resolution,
which must still be approved
by the Senate, also stated that the “achievement of a two-state solution
that would enhance stability and security in the Middle East is a
fundamental United States security interest.”
On Monday,
Peres called Indyk, the newly appointed US envoy to the negotiations,
and wished him luck on his mission to help the sides reach an agreement.
“You took upon yourself a mission important like no other and I thank
you for it,” Peres told Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel. “I have my
fingers crossed for your success and for the progress of the
negotiations that will bring a peaceful solution to both sides.”Peace talks kicked off informally in
Washington Monday evening with an Iftar dinner, a traditional dinner
marking the close of the daily fast during the month of Ramadan.Livni described the mood at the dinner as
“very good” and even friendly, emphasizing that both sides were
“serious” and had learned from personal experience in earlier rounds of
talks.The Associated Press contributed to this report. 
