"Arab nations OK limited talks between Palestinians, Israel" by Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press | March 4, 2010
Amr Moussa, Arab League secretary general, with two foreign ministers yesterday in Cairo. The decision to authorize talks was not unanimous among the 14 nations represented. (Amr Nabil/ Associated Press)
Yeah, I could hardly believe my eyes, too.
CAIRO - Arab nations gave the green light yesterday for Palestinians to enter indirect negotiations with Israel for a preliminary four-month period, a decision likely to break the monthslong deadlock over resuming Mideast peace talks.
The United States has proposed indirect negotiations, with American officials mediating, to end the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians over the conditions for resuming negotiations. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke down more than a year ago, when Israel launched a bruising offensive against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers.
Yeah, not a war crime or anything.
Just a "bruising offensive" as if no one died.
The Arab approval gives the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, the political cover he needs to accept the offer.
Pfft!
No amount of sky or earth could cover him. Not after what Israel has done.
Wanna talk to someone? Start talking to Hamas!!!!
Abbas has staunchly rejected direct talks unless Israel calls a complete halt to the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - and he had been wary of entering even indirect talks without Arab backing.
Yup, and HERE THEY ARE EXPANDING the LAST TWO DAYS!!
The gathering of 14 Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo agreed.
“Despite the lack of conviction in the seriousness of the Israeli side, the committee sees that it would give the indirect talks the chance as a last attempt, and to facilitate the US role,’’ said Amr Moussa, Arab League secretary general, reading from a statement.
Moussa said Arab foreign ministers backed the talks on the condition that they last four months. “This should not be an open-ended process,’’ he said.
The ministers also said the indirect negotiations, which would involve US officials shuttling back and forth between the sides, should not turn into direct Israeli-Palestinian talks without a total freeze in settlement construction.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel instituted a 10-month halt on new construction in the West Bank in November, but the stoppage does not apply to building that was already started, nor to construction in East Jerusalem....
Moussa warned that if indirect talks fail to yield results, Arabs will call for an emergency Security Council meeting to address the Arab-Israeli conflict and would ask Washington not to use its veto.
Have Palestinians recently bought the AmeriKan government?
Then FORGET THAT!!!
Abbas has been eager to secure US guarantees that Israel will be committed to the outcome of the talks before agreeing to negotiations, but he said Tuesday that he would adhere to the Arab foreign ministers’ decision.
Yesterday’s statement did not receive the unanimous support of the 14 Arab nations that took part in the meeting.
Yeah, save that for the BACK END of the piece, PoS media!
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem of Syria interrupted Moussa while he was reading the statement, insisting that the decision on whether to join indirect talks was up to the Palestinians. “The Palestinians are better positioned to know what to do,’’ he said.
Yeah, that was the FIRST THING I THOUGHT as I started to read this item.
That and WHERE have the ARABS BEEN all this time?
The militant Islamic group Hamas, which wrested power from Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip in 2007, rejected yesterday’s decision.
Yup, THAT LIE just KEEPS on ROLLING ALONG!
And if the AmeriKan MSM will LIE and MISREPRESENT such a SIMPLE THING, well.... then you can TRUST NOTHING that they say, especially when it comes to ISRAEL!!
Hamas leadership, based in Damascus, leveled strong criticism, saying in a statement that indirect talks give Israel “a chance to continue settlement activity’’ and increase Jewish control over the West Bank.
That is WHAT they are doing, all right!!
It also blasted the Palestinian Authority for agreeing to talks without a settlement freeze.
Last week, Israel placed two West Bank shrines, including one in Hebron, on a list of national heritage sites, enraging Palestinians, who want the West Bank for a future state and see the move as an attempt by Israel to cement its presence there.
Related: West Bank Moment of Silence
Netanyahu welcomed the Arab League decision.
Now I KNOW it is a BAD DEAL!
“It seems that the conditions are ripening for the renewal of negotiations between us and the Palestinians,’’ he said. “In the Middle East you need two to tango, but it could be that we need three to tango and we might need to leapfrog at first.’’
Yup, NOW the ARAB LEAGUE is SERVING ISRAEL, sigh!
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Why not ISOLATE ISRAEL just as they try to ISOLATE others, huh?
Fact is, THEY ALREADY ARE!
And no doubt now that the League is carrying out AmeriKan wishes:
RAMALLAH, West Bank - A skeptical Palestinian leadership agreed yesterday to hold indirect peace talks with Israel for four months, with the United States acting as a mediator. The decision effectively ends a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides.
The development marks a first achievement in more than a year for US diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena and a softening in the position of the Palestinian leadership, which has insisted it would not begin talks unless Israel fully froze construction in its settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
When is ISRAEL going to "soften up," huh?
The indirect format is meant to give the Palestinians the necessary political cover to resume talks.
Even though everyone sees the PA has no clothes except a yarmulke?
However, they warned they would walk away if the outlines of a border deal with Israel have not emerged after four months. They also ruled out subsequent direct talks without a complete Israeli settlement construction freeze.
“This peace process cannot go on forever,’’ said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. “Now it’s time for decisions.’’
Yep, uh-huh.
The decision by the Palestine Liberation Organization to resume talks came a day before Vice President Joseph Biden is to begin the highest-level visit to the area by an Obama administration official.
Yeah, Israel shat on him.
See:
Israel accepted the indirect talks last week.
Erekat said he did not know when the talks would begin. They are expected to be held with the help of the US Mideast envoy, George Mitchell.
Mitchell, who has made numerous trips to the region over the past year with few signs of progress, was back yesterday, presumably to wrap up preparations for negotiations....
Netanyahu welcomed the prospect of negotiations but staked out tougher positions than his predecessor, refusing to consider a partition of Jerusalem and insisting on keeping key areas of the West Bank.
Of course, HE SCREAMS NO PRECONDITIONS at PALESTINIANS, the hypocritical war criminal.
Netanyahu has also resisted a complete settlement construction freeze, agreeing only to curb construction in the West Bank for 10 months, but not in east Jerusalem, the Palestinians’ hoped-for capital.
Yeah, I am SICK of ISRAELI INTRANSIGENCE, too!!!!
In a related development yesterday, Netanyahu approved compensation for Israelis hurt financially by the partial settlement freeze, his office said.
Un-flipping-f***ing-real!!
The government said contractors and people who have bought homes in the West Bank would be eligible, but gave no figures.
The Palestinians broke off the talks when Israel launched its bruising offensive in the Gaza Strip in December 2008, aimed at stopping years of rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
Another DISTORTED piece of Zionist propaganda!
The removed Israeli government graph: 'Monthly distribution of rockets hits.'
On the 4th November, the day when Americans were watching the results of the Presidential election, the Israeli army broke the ceasefire by raiding the strip.
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Oh, Hamas observing a UNILATERAL TRUCE as Usrael continues its war criminal siege?
Why isn't that part of my newspaper background, readers?
Israel’s rejection of Abbas’s condition of a complete settlement construction freeze for renewal of talks put Abbas in a bind.
Easier to fuck him that way!
He didn’t want to stymie US efforts to relaunch talks, but backing down would hurt his standing by making him seem weak.
It really can't get any lower, dude.
He also had to consider the populist appeal of his rivals, the Hamas militants who overran Gaza in 2007 and advocate armed confrontation against Israel.
Yeah, it is as if the VOTE never even took place!
Down the old memory hole, huh, MSM?
Of course, it is OKAY for ISRAEL to ACT on its advocacy and COMMIT WAR CRIMES!!
The concept of indirect talks gave him a way to sidestep the dilemma. Last week, the Arab League endorsed the idea of four months of US-mediated talks, giving him the backing of the Arab world - and a cover should the talks fail.
Like they ALWAYS DO!
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