{"id":17137,"date":"2010-01-07T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_u-s-_push_for_mideast_peace_faces_old_obstacles\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:01:17","slug":"new_u-s-_push_for_mideast_peace_faces_old_obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17137","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. push for Mideast peace faces old obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new U.S.-led initiative to revive Middle East peace talks faces steep hurdles even before it&#8217;s launched, with Israelis and Palestinians resisting new concessions despite a fresh application of American diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama&#8217;s first efforts at brokering Middle East peace bore no fruit last year, and the White House now has crafted a two-year plan under which Israelis and Palestinians would hold regular, intense meetings to reach a final peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is sending his Mideast envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell, on a series of trips to the region and to Europe starting next week. He&#8217;s also enlisting the help of Arab allies, whose representatives are filing through Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/world\/story\/81825.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new U.S.-led initiative to revive Middle East peace talks faces steep hurdles even before it&#8217;s launched, with Israelis and Palestinians resisting new concessions despite a fresh application of American diplomacy. President Barack Obama&#8217;s first efforts at brokering Middle East<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17137\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,144,565,203,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}