Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256289 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 21/2014
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The nine months of negotiations agreed last summer by the US mediators and the two parties ended on 29 April 2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry has since announced a pause in US facilitation activities. Yet, a definitive breakdown or failure of the Middle East peace talks bears far-reaching risks. Even if the mediators were to succeed in effecting a restart of talks, there is scant hope of bridging the rifts within the year envisaged - at least if the previous approach were to be maintained. That will lead to a further consolidation of the one-state reality that has long since emerged between the Mediterranean and River Jordan. Germany and its partners in the European Union must face up to the alternatives: either a much more robust approach to propel the talks to a two-state solution, or insistence on equal political, economic and cultural rights for all in the territories controlled by Israel. (SWP Comments)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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