Saturday, February 05, 2011
By Mary Beth Sheridan and Janine Zacharia, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- The uprising in Egypt threatens to further derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, with the United States and other key actors distracted, and no one sure whether President Hosni Mubarak's successor will maintain Egypt's mediating role, diplomats and analysts said.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and senior representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers -- the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States -- are scheduled to meet today to consider how to revive the moribund process.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now the Quartet representative, announced Friday that Israel had agreed to revive talks on developing a gas field off the Gaza Strip, to allow construction materials for sanitation and water treatment plants to enter Gaza and to take other steps to improve Palestinian infrastructure. But Mr. Blair noted in a statement, "Agreement to all this is not the same as implementation."
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