{"id":6653,"date":"2010-08-20T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:23:14","slug":"u-s-urges-mideast-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/20\/u-s-urges-mideast-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. urges Mideast peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6654\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/Hillary-Clinton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"OUKWD-UK-PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-CLINTON\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" \/>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president to <a title=\"resume\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/20\/AR2010082002247.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">resume<\/a> peace talks which have been on hold for two years.\u00a0 She said\u00a0direct negotiations will begin\u00a0in Washington on Sept. 2.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Bob Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Zelnick<\/a>, former ABC News foreign correspondent\u00a0and author of \u201c<em>Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,&#8221; <\/em>says in a Politico <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/arena\/perm\/Robert_Zelnick_A44EF1CE-A861-455F-8997-D6193CB376BE.html\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>\u00a0that after a recent extended fact-finding visit he found the Palestinians ready to deal.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While maintaining no stated goal of &#8216;liberating&#8217; Gaza, the new Palestinian leadership believes that a deal with Israel which establishes an independent Palestinian state will be hard for Hamas to oppose.\u00a0 Do I believe that a deal will be reached within the one-year time-limit the parties have set for themselves? Yes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Bob Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian president to resume peace talks which have been on hold for two years.\u00a0 She said\u00a0direct negotiations will begin\u00a0in Washington on Sept. 2.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, former ABC News foreign correspondent\u00a0and author of \u201cIsraeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,&#8221; says in a Politico commentary\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2526,134,540,3508,969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653"}],"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=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}