Israel Matzav: Mark your calendars!

Mark your calendars!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, it looks like the 'Palestinians' are going to agree to proximity talks for four months. Why four months? Yes, of course it's significant.

An Israeli official said that the Palestinian decision to give the indirect talks four months was not taken at random, and was designed to expire shortly before the termination of Netanyahu’s 10-month settlement housing moratorium, at the end of August. This will now be used as a lever to get Netanyahu to extend and widen the moratorium, the official predicted.

And of course when Netanyahu instituted the 'settlement freeze' and insisted it was a one-time deal, everyone warned that once he agreed to it, he would be pressured to extend it.

Four months from now, the 'proximity talks' will have gone nowhere although US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell will be able to travel from Jerusalem to Ramallah in his sleep, and the 'Palestinians' and the Obama administration (three months from a midterm election) will pressure Israel to keep the show going by extending the 'freeze.' So mark your calendars.

Of course, we could be fighting a war in Iran by then....

What could go wrong?

Israel Matzav: Mark your calendars!