Today marks the deadline set in July by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for Israeli and Palestinian leadership to achieve a “final status agreement,” which means that another round of peace negotiations has ended unsuccessfully.
There’s been a series of less-than-inspiring developments in recent weeks, from last week’s unity deal between Hamas and the PLO, which ended a seven-year rift between the two Palestinian factions and essentially guaranteed to bring negotiations to a standstill, to the news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved 13,000 new settlement units during the duration of the talks. This week Kerry also came under fire this week for warning that Israel risked becoming “an apartheid state” without a solid peace deal.
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