Enough of silly pre-conditions. If boarders are a final status issue why are they the one thing holding up talks now? Until a Palestinian leader who is both empowered by all his people and who actually cares about his people's future emerges then talks are a waste of political effort and will only lead to disappointment on all sides.

1.) Remove all references to the destruction of Israel from the PLO Covenant. 2.) Stop all incitement in the palestinian media and mosques, instead promoting peaceful coexistence.

Abbas has no right calling for the cleansing of Jews living in their liberated historic homeland of Judea and Samaria. Judea and Samaria are Israel's land since ancient time which Israel liberated from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers in the 20th century. Israel can tell these usurpers to go to Hell. Their homeland is in Jordan and Arabia and NOT the Land of Israel. Israel should continue building more houses in Judea and Samaria.

unless they apologize for attacking Israel in 1948, 1967, 1973, etc. etc. and murdering and terrorizing the Jews here, there is no deal. Let us not forget that the Arabs started all those wars, and lost. You start a war and lose, you suffer the consequence of losing territory. We, as the victors, are the ones who can demand and dictate.

that exactly what Israel need...

we can see the result of obama's policies, Before obama the palestinians negotiated eveything without settlement construction being stopped ...but all of a sudden its an issue ... this is what obama has brought. And its getting worse, now Solana wants a Palestinian state without a treaty. Wait untill Hamas takes over and we get another round of wars only this time with hezbollah and iran involved ...all these lovers of peace are putting into play the next big confrontation. When it comes they will act suprised but the truth will be known. A state without Israel's support is a formula for war and unless the Palestinians recognize Israel as Jewish and give up the right of return, there will be no deal.

Stop the Arab Occupation of Israel. Arabs first started calling themselves "Palestinians" in 1967. Global terrorist, Egyptian Arafat was the first leader of this new people. Partner with Arafat for 40 years; highly respected by the US/EU-Holocaust denier, Abbas, financed the massacre of Israelis at the Munich Olympic Games. Before 1948, Jews were known as the Palestinians. The Jewish newspaper, the Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post. The Jewish-founded electric company was Palestine Electric. The Palestinian Symphony Orchestra was all Jewish. During World War II, the British army had a Palestinian Brigade made up entirely of Jewish volunteers. After Jews migrated to Palestine in significant numbers in the late 1800s and miraculously transformed desert and swamps into rich, agricultural land, Arabs came in large numbers from Arab countries for jobs from Jews. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Arabs resided only briefly in Palestine is attested to by a one-time special UN decree: that any Arab who had resided in Palestine FOR ONLY TWO YEARS BEFORE 1948, and then left, would be considered a refugee and so would his descendants! Throughout history, people were NEVER regarded as refugees if they had resided in a country for ONLY two years because they were clearly CITIZENS of OTHER COUNTRIES!

stood up for the Israelis! Thanks Obama!

Why nobody has the guts to simply tell Abbas that if he doesn't want to sit and speak with us, it's OK? That we don't really care if he want's to talk or not, that he knows perfectly well where we are if he changes his mind? Are we afraid of plain talking?

The EU wants to declare a PA state. The "Palestinians" want to "return" to Israel. Therefore the new PA state will be a country that nobody wants to live in. Ha! Unbelievable!

WE will not come to the table until the "palestinians" cease all hate education, terror, glorification of suicide bombers..... TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME

Ok, Mr. Abbass-attitude. No talks? No Palestine! Go ahead and move back to Jordan, the only TRUE "Palestinian Homeland." That way, the REAL problem, Palestinian Arabs, are removed from Israel, the "Jewish homeland," and Peace may actually return to the Middle East.

Our big mouth Olmert offered abbas west bank, E. Jerusalem and right of return( for which he needs urgently to go to jail) that makes it difficult for Bibi to readjust. demands. Olmert was a fluke of sharon's stroke but he had done major damage to israel. Now abbas will have to learn to new limits and jewish state, no right of return are the start. No concession from the PLO, no deal. After winograd clearly said that halutz failed as chief of staff, Halutz now comes out as says sometimes one has to go crazy. He is an idiot and sharon was senile to appoint him. No air force general will ever lead as chief of staff again. Halutz doesn't understand that the home front had to have advance preparation and the ground soldiers had to use asymmetrical methods like in gaza so as not to get chewed up by putin's antitank rockets. And they had to attack in in numbers.Hey, hezbollah was well prepared, well dug in and give them credit. IDF was lax in trainnng, in supply. But the main problem was olmert and halutz. Olmert has no stomach for war, cannot take one drop of blood, and halutz sees war only from the air. And he is an idiot, close minded. Kaplinski who should have reset strategy sat there like a dope unlike sharon in 1973, who changed the israel strategy of defense to aggressive counterattack by pushing bar lev and dayan and telling the PM meir to shut up. In the hezbollah war, no one told this dork olmert to shut up. So belatedly, I say to you Olmert, shut up, sit there and not one word, you dumbbell. Olmert thrives in shmear and grease, doublebilling charities for expenses and taking envelopes through intermediaries. israelis can see this haaretz fraud. Margolin and shiff called olmert a miserable failure. And livni is not far behind parrotting the imbecile 2-state, 2-state and then running to ban-ki moon to please help. What a bunch of dumbbells. Lieberman has a 1000 fold more guts than these cowards. And he calls a spade, a spade, whether Clinton, obama, erdogan, or assad, unlike olmert who folded like a cheap suit before rice, erdogan and abbas.

The Palestinians have successfully sold the idea that they are resisting an occupation. Israel is the occupier, the Palestinians are resisting, so the problem can be solved by pressuring Israel politically, economically, and militarily. When we examine both Palestinian words and actions, we see that this is really something much different from what it seems. The rhetoric of hatred, the indoctrination of children, the Palestinians’ willingness to use their own people as martyrs for the sake of blackening Israel’s image, the constant threats to destroy Israel and to liberate “all” of Palestine, are all signs that this is no revolutionary movement in the Western mold. This is a jihad in the most traditional and most extreme sense of the word. This is a war for Israel’s extermination. More at : http://xrl.us/berwte