"The Palestinians need to focus on their good international relation and try to convince as many countries as possible to follow Brazil and Argentine that have acknowledged a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders," he said, referring to the letters sent by the leaders of Argentine, Brazil and mens timberland 6 inch Uruguay to Abbas confirming their recognition of an independent Palestinian state in 2011.However, Prof. Eytan Gilboa from the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies at the Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv holds another view. He warned that the unilateral declaration could jeopardize the Oslo accords.
"It would free Israel from all its obligations under the Oslo peace process, and it would be able to say that 'there is already a Palestinian state and the conflict is solved,'" he told Xinhua.Asked about the possibility of future negotiations under Washington's brokering, Awwad was doubtful that the U.S. has a role to play in the future."The U.S can not continue to lead the negotiations after they have acknowledged that their own failure in trying to convince Israel to freeze the settlement cheap timberlands construction," he said.Another choice for the Palestinians is that, some analysts argue, the negotiations would be transferred from U.S. sponsorship to the Quartet, which in addition to America includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia.However, U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who returned to the region this week, vowed that his country would continue efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite difficulties.
"There are still many difficulties and obstacles in the way but we are determined to persevere in our efforts to see independent and viable state of Palestine," Mitchell told reporters on Tuesday after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.Gilboa said that he was not sure whether the Obama administration does have a plan on what to do next."They have sent George Mitchell here again to try the resumption of talks. It seems that it's going to be very difficult, timberland boots for women because the Palestinians demand to completely freeze settlement construction while Israel is not prepared to do that, especially in Jerusalem," he said.Analysts believe that a difference between Mitchell's current visit and his previous trips to the region is the U.S. now is planning to deal with various issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts."The U.S. seeks to help the two parties reach an agreement to all final-status issues, and that would pave the way for a final peace treaty.
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