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Kerry: Need to See Progress in Mideast Peace Push Before September
(New York Times) Michael R. Gordon and Jodi Rudoren - Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday in Kuwait that progress toward a Middle East peace agreement needed to be made before the UN General Assembly resumes its debate over the Middle East in September. Kerry stressed that he was not setting a firm deadline for resuming peace talks, but said, "Long before September we need to be showing some kind of progress in some way." "Almost everybody who's been professionally involved in the peace process does not believe that a permanent status agreement is possible at this time," cautioned Dore Gold, a former Israeli negotiator and aide to Netanyahu who is now president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "What is needed is a new paradigm in order to make this work, but there's no indication that any new ideas are surfacing."