Subject: txt israel - action? -
Two key U.S. senators on Sunday dismissed Mideast envoy George Mitchell's suggestion that Washington withhold loan guarantees to pressure Israel. ''I don't think it's helpful and I don't agree with it'' Republican John McCain said during a visit to Jerusalem. Independent Joe Lieberman, meanwhile, pledged a fight in Congress against any such move.
Israeli officials were up in arms Sunday after Mitchell posed the suggestion, meant to press Jerusalem to make [yet more] concessions in negotiations with the Palestinians.
On Friday, the Obama administration laid out a major shift in its Mideast peace strategy, suggesting both sides move past this impasse by tackling defining borders for a Palestinian state and the status of Jerusalem.
The Palestinians say such positions offer little common ground for talks to succeed.
[Victim-hood is their business - they {the tyrants supposedly representing their people} don't really want peace.]
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