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Ya'alon: US shifted from conflict resolution to management

By GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN

DECEMBER 25, 2011 22:33

Vice Premier Moshe Ya'alon, who is close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, suggested Sunday night that Israel had persuaded US President Barack Obama to change his strategy from trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to merely managing it.

Speaking in English to a gathering of the Likud Anglos organization in Jerusalem, Ya'alon recalled many mistakes made by Obama and other Western leaders. He credited his own government with persuading the US to right its wrongs.

"We convinced the American administration that there is no way to solve the conflict in one or two years," Ya'alon told a packed audience at the Orthodox Union's Israel Center. "The US is trying to manage the conflict now, rather than solve it."

This was the first time a high-ranking Netanyahu administration official has indicated that the US had shifted from conflict resolution to management. But there has been no public indication that the Americans have given up their hope of solving the conflict, and the US helped draft the Quartet position that aims to solve the conflict by the end of 2012.

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