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PROBLEM: Without suggesting a new path toward Mideast peace  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed frustration Friday with the Israel-Palestinian impasse while insisting the Obama administration will "not lose hope."
 She said the U.S. will keep pressing for a solution  and she called on Israelis and Palestinians to set aside their differences.
 "It is no secret that the parties have a long way to go and that they have not yet made the difficult decisions that peace requires " she said in a dinner speech at the Saban Forum  a Mideast policy seminar sponsored by the Brookings Institution think tank. "And like many of you  I regret that we have not gotten farther  faster."
 She spoke just days after the administration dropped an effort to persuade Israel to impose a temporary freeze on some settlement activity. The Palestinians insist that direct peace talks cannot resume until Israel halts settlement construction.
 Clinton made clear that she believes the Israelis and Palestinians are ultimately responsible for settling their long conflict.
 "Unfortunately  as we have learned  the parties in this conflict have often not been ready to take the necessary steps " she said. "Going forward  they must take responsibility and make the difficult decisions that peace requires. This begins with a sincere effort to see the world through the other side's eyes  to try to understand their perspective and positions. Palestinians must appreciate Israel's legitimate security concerns. And Israelis must accept the legitimate territorial aspirations of the Palestinian people. Ignoring the other side's needs is in the end self-defeating."
 Clinton did not mention the administration's frequently repeated goal of achieving at least the outline of a final peace settlement by September 2011. That goal was set when Israeli and Palestinian leaders came to Washington in September to resume negotiations -- a process that quickly broke down over disagreement on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
 She pledged to stay actively involved  but she offered no new strategy for achieving the peace deal that has eluded other U.S. administrations.
 "The United States will not be a passive participant " she said. "We will push the parties to lay out their positions on the core issues without delay  in good faith  and with real specificity. We will work to narrow the gaps  asking tough questions and expecting substantive answers. And  in the context of our private conversations with the parties  we will offer our own ideas and bridging proposals when appropriate."
 Before her remarks  Clinton met the Palestinian prime minister  the lead Palestinian negotiator  the Israeli defense minister  Israel's former foreign minister and the U.N. special envoy for the region.
 On Thursday  Clinton held lengthy talks with Israel's chief negotiator. The administration's special Mideast peace envoy will travel to the region next week.

SOLUTION: Clinton expresses frustration at Mideast impasse

PROBLEM: A former host of  'E! News ' Catt Sadler   says she left the network after learning of a 'massive disparity in pay' compared to a male co-host. (Photo: Brandon Hickman/E! Entertainment)
Former E!  News host Catt Sadler  is responding to E!'s defense of  her  salary  which  she  claims was nearly half that of  her  male co-host Jason Kennedy.
E! chief Frances Berwick confirmed a difference in salaries between  Sadler  and Kennedy during a Television Critics Association panel Tuesday  but attributed the pay gap to a difference in roles.
“ Catt Sadler  and Jason Kennedy had different roles and therefore different salaries ” he said. “Catt was focused on daytime. Jason Kennedy is on primetime evening news  plus red carpet. Our employees’ salaries are based on their roles and their expertise  regardless of gender. We wish Catt well  but I hope that sets the record straight on that.”
The defense echoes a statement the company provided to USA TODAY at the time of  Sadler 's pay gap claims in December.
“E! compensates employees fairly and appropriately based on their roles  regardless of gender " the statement reads. "We appreciate  Catt Sadler ’s many contributions at E! News and wish her all the best following her decision to leave the network.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday   Sadler  disagreed with the network's statement  saying it wasn't about being underpaid but "about the gross disparity between two similarly situated equals at the network."
"Time is up. We want diversity and we want intersectional gender parity. We want equal pay. You know  I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts " she told E!'s Giuliana Rancic. "I miss Catt Sadler  and we stand with her. And that's something that can change tomorrow."
"We support gender equity and equal pay  and we hope that E! follows that lead with  Catt  as well " she said. "We stand with you  Catt ."

SOLUTION: Catt Sadler responds to E! defending paying her less than male co

PROBLEM: Despite the fact that the United States had paid for the cranes  one senior U.S. diplomat opposed their delivery. Matthew Tueller  the U.S. ambassador to Yemen  argued that it was pointless to deliver the equipment because it would only be destroyed  either by coalition bombs  the opposition Houthis  or a future military offensive by the United Arab Emirates.
 Tueller  was and remains a central figure in peace negotiations  which have not resulted in a peace deal or a lasting cessation of hostilities. As talks have faltered  a cholera epidemic is spiraling out of control  the nation’s infrastructure has been reduced to rubble  and some 50 000 children are expected to die of disease and starvation by the end of this year.
This portrait of  Tueller  and his role in the failed peace negotiations is based on interviews with six current and former senior State Department and national security officials who worked closely with  Tueller . All of them asked to remain anonymous in order to share diplomatically sensitive details.
Yemen’s President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi  right  talks with U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller  left  during a meeting in Aden on March 2  2015. Photo: Reuters
 Tueller  is a career foreign service officer who has held posts throughout the Middle East  serving in Egypt  Iraq  and Kuwait. A graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a father of five  he rose steadily through the State Department ranks  gaining a reputation as a well-respected and deeply knowledgeable diplomat. He became ambassador to Kuwait in 2011  and attracted little public attention  aside from a happenstance run in with Kim Kardashian.
Multiple sources in Washington briefed on the negotiations said Abdul Salam’s version was indeed consistent with  Tueller ’s position that the Houthis had to accept the agreement as is  or else the Yemeni people would face worsening humanitarian conditions  though the sources were not in the room for the conversation.
Whether  Tueller  made that specific threat or not   it ’s notable that the Houthi negotiator would make such a charge publicly. At the very least  Abdul Salam’s statement suggests a deep distrust between  Tueller  and a key party to the conflict.
By the spring of 2016 — more than a year into the war – both the Obama White House and State Department began to question why  Tueller  was pushing such a one-sided plan.
In May 2016  Jon Finer  Kerry’s chief of staff  sent an email to  Tueller  asking why he didn’t support the formation of a national unity government. A unity government would include members of the various factions  giving the Houthis a seat at the table in the form of ministerial positions or other roles.
The email was one of several exchanges with  Tueller  that were widely circulated around the State Department. Its contents  and those of other exchanges with  Tueller  on the topic  were described to The Intercept and confirmed by multiple former officials.
Finer’s concerns were seconded by Eric Pelofsky  senior director for Yemen on Obama’s National Security Council  who also wrote directly to  Tueller . Finer and Pelofsky  in their emails  urged  Tueller  to move past the framework provided by U.N. Resolution 2216 and offer something the Houthis might actually accept.
 Tueller  responded by saying that the Houthis were negotiating in bad faith. Saleh had already violated the internationally brokered agreement that put Hadi in power  he argued  so why wouldn’t they violate a future agreement that prescribed them a limited role in government?
As the negotiations stretched on  State Department officials in D.C. began to feel like they were in the dark about exactly what  Tueller  was doing. Kerry’s staff pushed to receive more frequent updates. When press reports emerged about the negotiations being deadlocked  Finer pressed  Tueller  again on why he wasn’t pushing negotiations toward the idea of a unity government.
But the secretary of state didn’t trust Tueller to carry out his instructions. Kerry thought he had to be involved in the talks to push the new approach  and he spent much of the remainder of 2016 participating in Yemen’s peace negotiations. Kerry even met personally with Houthi representatives  who were growing frustrated with  Tueller .  Tueller   meanwhile  argued that Kerry personally intervening in the talks was premature and would not get the outcome Kerry wanted.
In a statement to The Intercept  State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert described  Tueller  as a “devoted career diplomat” and said he has the “full confidence” in the new administration.
“The U.S. policy in Yemen remains unchanged: to work with our international partners to bring peace  prosperity  and security to Yemen ” said Nauert. “We have consistently supported the work of the U.N. Special Envoy and comprehensive peace negotiations under the auspices of the U.N.”

SOLUTION:
Inside the Failed Yemen Peace Talks a Hard