Holy pancake in a biscuit! There is some interesting language coming out of George Mitchell to get the Peace Process restarted.
US May Freeze Aid to Israel
The US may finally begin to act as a neutral party in perhaps the most interesting way possible. If middle east peace does not begin to come into fruition by either side, George Mitchell is stating that the US may simply freeze its aid to that side for not cooperating. I mean this is the biggest of big guns. George HW Bush did not survive a second term when he tried this, Obama may not as well. But this shows that they are going to try everything to get middle east peace going.
According to American law, Mitchell said, the US can freeze its support for aid to Israel. He added that all options must remain open and that the sides must be convinced about what their important interests are.
The US envoy noted that some progress had been made and that his country would continue its efforts to resume the negotiations.
The American guarantees allow Israel to raise funds at low interest rates and improve the Jewish state's credit rating. The last time the US threatened to freeze the guarantees was during the term of President George Bush Sr. and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
This is hot on the news, of course, that the peace process may be revived in the next month or so, but Mitchell appears to be throwing the gauntlet down. This is a HUGE deal.