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Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa is calling for nations to consider reviewing diplomatic ties with Israel and boycotting its products in solidarity with Palestine.

Marty acknowledged that the situation in the occupied territories had grown unfavorable following unilateral Israeli moves.

“There is an unbalanced situation and Israel should bear responsibility for the failure of peace negotiations,” Marty said on the sidelines of the 67th UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.

The foreign minister was commenting on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s pessimistic assessment of the peace process. “The door may be closing, for good, on a two-state solution,” Ban said in his speech to the assembly.

“We must break this dangerous impasse,” Ban added.

Your comments:

History shows that on many occasions the Palestinians have walked out of negotiations before they even got off the ground as they had so many preconditions. It takes two to tango.

Sam Spade

The person, who utters the words “Boycott Israel” must be a dishonest person. He is not well informed on Israeli rights or he is paid to say these things.

Why don’t you first look around you in Indonesia and ask your police force to reduce the enormous amount of corruption generated in your dishonest nation.

He forgets that “people who live in glasshouses should not throw stones”. Having such outcasts in the government of Indonesia rates your country as a third world nation.

Listiani Lestari

Indonesia’s main priority should be battling corruption and other sorts of injustice being faced by the everyday Indonesian.

But Marty is a foreign minister and it is his duty to abide by Indonesia’s foreign policy of 100 percent Palestinian freedom.

If you suggest that Marty focus on anti-corruption efforts, he should be the head of the KPK not the foreign minister. Oh, and just to let you know, Yudhoyono is President, not you.

Oecar Utomo

Some comments demonstrate nothing but their fluency in English. Clearly they don’t know, not even
a single bit about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, yet are eager to throw out their words just to show their stupidity.

Better think before you write or speak, or else people will only laugh at your stupidity! Be part of the solution, not the problem.