Encore un cable de Wikileaks qui fait mouche. Il existe une forme d'accord entre les USA et Israel pour fermer les yeux sur les plans d'occupation actuel voire de construction. On voit aussi la position de Sarkozy disant simplement une réalité mal comprise par les USA et Israel. Encore une fois le cable est sur la Toile...
"Patrice Paoli informed POL Minister Counselor June 18 that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak
told French officials in Paris June 15 that the Israelis havea "secret accord" with the USG to continue the "natural
growth" of Israeli settlements in the West Bank."
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MFA Middle East Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) Patrice Paoli informed POL Minister
Counselor June 18 that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told French officials in Paris June 15 that the Israelis have
a "secret accord" with the USG to continue the "natural growth" of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Paoli noted
that the French anticipate strong Israeli resistance to USG pressure on this issue. He asked whether the USG has
considered how to adapt to possible Israeli responses: "How will you react to Israeli reactions to your pressure?" He
claimed that "the credibility of President Obama will be judged on the issue of settlements." MFA DAS Ludovic Pouille, who also attended the meeting, underlined this point: "Arabs are saying progress on settlements is crucial. Saudi Arabia and Egypt seem obsessed with the settlements
issue; they won't even enter the game without progress onsettlements." Paoli added that "negotiations can wait until the fallbut steps forward cannot wait until then." Both diplomats emphasized the need to build confidence measures on the ground now.
¶2. (S/NF) In stressing the energy with which the GOF plans to approach the peace process, Paoli said that France will
not wait until all 27 EU members are in agreement before pressing ahead with their support of USG efforts. Pouille
said the French can play an important role on "two key issues": working toward a settlements freeze and monitoring
the implementation of an eventual agreement. By leaning on other countries in the European Union and within the Quartet
to bring their resources to bear ("their diplomatic presence, their networks"), Paoli said that France hopes to contribute
to pressing the parties forward as quickly as possible. Pouille stressed monitoring in particular, which he described
as "a big hole at the Annapolis conference." He argued that "the US cannot be the only judge" of progress.
¶3. (S/NF) Paoli explained that President Sarkozy will have three messages to convey to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
when they meet in Paris on June 24:
-- "You think you've got time, but you don't."
-- "You think you have an alternative solution, but you
don't."
-- "You think you're stronger than the Palestinians, but
you're not."
Paoli said that Sarkozy will stress that "there is a single door and it is imperative to move through it now." Paoli and
Pouille both expressed disappointment with the reservations contained in Netanyahu's June 14 speech, but noted that it
nonetheless reflected significant movement in the Likud position regarding a Palestinian state. "It's not easy to
reverse a campaign promise two months after the campaign," Paoli observed. They also said that President Obama's
address in Cairo was extremely well received in France and inthe Arab world. "It was a speech, though, and it was a
received as a speech," Pouille said. "The reaction in the Arab world was: 'Now do it.'"