{"id":57589,"date":"2024-05-24T00:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/c-i-a-director-to-meet-with-israeli-counterpart-this-weekend-over-cease-fire-talks\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T00:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:31:11","slug":"c-i-a-director-to-meet-with-israeli-counterpart-this-weekend-over-cease-fire-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/c-i-a-director-to-meet-with-israeli-counterpart-this-weekend-over-cease-fire-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"C.I.A. Director to Meet With Israeli Counterpart This Weekend Over Cease-Fire Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/09\/multimedia\/23mideast-crisis-burns-mossad-chief\/09mideast-crisis-talks-update-bwpt-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"C.I.A. Director to Meet With Israeli Counterpart This Weekend Over Cease-Fire Talks\" title=\"C.I.A. Director to Meet With Israeli Counterpart This Weekend Over Cease-Fire Talks\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director who has been the lead American negotiator in efforts for a cease-fire in Gaza, plans to travel to Europe this weekend for talks with his Israeli counterpart to try to revive the stalled discussions over a pause in the fighting and the release of hostages, according to a U.S. official and another person briefed on the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This month, frustration boiled over between officials from Hamas and Israel, and the countries mediating \u2014 the United States, Qatar and Egypt \u2014 put the talks on hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli officials were upset with what they saw as shifting negotiating stances by Hamas, including the number of hostages to be released in a first phase. Hamas was upset by Israel\u2019s operations in Rafah, the southern Gazan city, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/05\/23\/world\/israel-gaza-war-hamas\/israels-military-says-it-is-fighting-near-central-rafah-apparently-expanding-its-operation-in-the-city?\" title=\"\">have been progressing<\/a> since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But core to the dispute were disagreements over how to define a cessation of hostilities between Hamas and Israel, and how different stages of the cease-fire would be put into effect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The resumption of talks, at an undisclosed location in Europe, is expected to take place over the next few days. It is not clear if Egyptian and Qatari negotiators will join Mr. Burns and David Barnea, the chief of the Mossad, Israel\u2019s spy agency, to directly take part in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Burns, however, has been in close contact with Egyptian and Qatari negotiators as the mediators look to get the talks back on track, said a U.S. official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In early May, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/10\/world\/middleeast\/ceasefire-hostages-israel-hamas.html?\" title=\"\">Mr. Burns did shuttle diplomacy<\/a> between Egypt and Israel trying to push for the first phase of an agreement to begin, including a staggered process for the release of hostages and a temporary halt in fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The talks in the coming days are expected to be the first since that round of negotiations ended. While it is unclear what could be achieved with Mr. Burns\u2019s new discussions, restarting the talks is, at this point, a notable development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S. officials say a hostage-for-cease-fire agreement has to be reached for all their other diplomatic efforts to get momentum, including discussions of a postwar administration in Gaza and a megadeal for a Palestinian state that the Americans and Saudis want Israel to agree to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Israeli military operations in Rafah continue to complicate the picture. The more aggressive the Israeli operations there, the less Hamas wants to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some American officials have said Israel is taking their advice on how to mitigate some civilian casualties \u2014 which has contributed to an erosion of international support for Israel with over 35,000 people dead, according to the Gazan health authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, said he was optimistic that Israel, so far, was not conducting the kind of major operation in Rafah that the United States had feared it would. But questions remain about exactly what the Israeli intentions for Rafah over the longer term might be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/23\/world\/middleeast\/cia-burns-israel-hostages-cease-fire.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director who has been the lead American negotiator in efforts for a cease-fire in Gaza, plans to travel to Europe this weekend for talks with his Israeli counterpart to try to revive the stalled discussions over a pause in the fighting and the release of hostages, according to a U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/09\/multimedia\/23mideast-crisis-burns-mossad-chief\/09mideast-crisis-talks-update-bwpt-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25955,7275,52021,439,1178,2485,66,4725],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57591,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57589\/revisions\/57591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}