{"id":220,"date":"2009-03-25T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:06:39","slug":"netanyahu-promises-peace-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/25\/netanyahu-promises-peace-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu promises peace effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism Professor <a title=\"Robert Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Zelnick<\/a>, author of <em>&#8220;<a title=\"Beyond Gaza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hooverpress.org\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1234\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza<\/a>&#8220;<\/em> and former ABC News correspondent, says that the Israeli Labor Party joining\u00a0the coalition\u00a0with Israeli PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s party means\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0has an opportunity to make peace with\u00a0the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The accord with Labor gives Netanyahu some flexibility to deal with both U.S. peacemaker George Mitchell and Palestinian negotiators without his government cracking apart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And, should he move in the direction of compromise and peace, he could counter opposition from right-wing members of his coalition by making Tsipi Livni and her Kadima opposition an offer they can&#8217;t refuse to come back to the coalition, even as the right-wing factions depart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;At the very least, Netanyahu appears ready to talk business with the Obama team, if not the Palestinians.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Robert Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism Professor Robert Zelnick, author of &#8220;Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza&#8221; and former ABC News correspondent, says that the Israeli Labor Party joining\u00a0the coalition\u00a0with Israeli PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s party means\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0has an opportunity to make peace with\u00a0the Palestinians. &#8220;The accord with Labor gives Netanyahu some flexibility to deal with both U.S. peacemaker George Mitchell and Palestinian negotiators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[540,673,672,519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}