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March 18, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/world/middleeast/18diplo.html

U.S. Mulls Own Plan for Mideast Talks

(New York Times) David E. Sanger and Isabel Kershner - The angry exchanges between the U.S. and the Israeli government have rekindled a White House debate over whether - and when - President Obama should propose an American plan to form the basis of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, senior administration officials said Wednesday. If Mr. Obama decided to advance his own proposal, it would likely not be until his special envoy, former Senator George J. Mitchell, had engaged in several months of "proximity talks," the indirect, American-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Aaron David Miller, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who was deeply involved in the Camp David talks during the Clinton administration, said that while the administration had "been thinking for months" about the advantages and risks of putting its own plan on the table, "they are worried about being accused of imposing their own solution."

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