Oh, right, it's the Boston Sunday Globe.
"Abbas urges Israel to accept ’67 border; Says direct peace talks could begin" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press | July 18, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will resume direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state and agrees to the deployment of an international force to guard them.
A non-starter.
Abbas is under growing pressure from the United States to resume negotiations, and met yesterday with President Obama’s Mideast envoy, George Mitchell.
Abbas’ latest comments, published yesterday in a Jordanian newspaper, hinted at some flexibility in his position. The Palestinian leader did not mention a comprehensive Israeli settlement freeze as a condition for negotiations — something he has underlined as crucial in the past.
However, it seemed unlikely Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would meet Abbas’ demands. Netanyahu has insisted on talks without conditions.
I was going to post a couple of links; however, wait a couple paragraphs.
The Palestinians are wary of entering talks with the hard-line Netanyahu, after 17 years of intermittent talks with a succession of Israeli leaders failed to bring them any closer to statehood.
The Palestinians want to establish their state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in 1967. Netanyahu has not said how much occupied territory he is willing to relinquish for a Palestinian state. However, he has said he will not give up control of Jerusalem and has insisted on a continued Israeli troop presence on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state.
Yeah, the HYPOCRITICAL ISRAELI A**HOLE then SETS HIS OWN PRECONDITIONS!
No wonder NO ONE LIKES talking to the ISRAELIS!!!
Negotiations between Abbas and Netanyahu’s predecessor, Ehud Olmert, broke off in December 2008, on the eve of Israel’s military offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip....
That's what they are calling war crimes these days, huh?
“We have said that the borders need to be on a 1967 basis, with agreement on land swaps equal in value and size, and we gave our vision regarding security, which was agreed on previously, in Olmert’s days,’’ Abbas told the Jordanian newspaper....
Not going to happen: Israel Intends to Keep All Settlements
Besides, how you gonna get a state out of this?
There is even less West Bank green now.
No wonder Hamas holds Gaza with all its might!!!!
It was not clear whether Mitchell made any headway in his meeting with Abbas yesterday. Abbas, Netanyahu, and Mitchell are scheduled to meet separately with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo tomorrow to sound out the prospects for a return to direct negotiations.
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Looks like he didn't get it.
