"Two officials involved in the contacts said she [Ashton] is trying to put together a package of Israeli incentives that would keep the Palestinians from walking away." This is exactly what is wrong with the negotiations. The Palestinians are entirely intransigent, and she is thinking of what to force Israel to do. Sorry, Ms. Ashton, nothing is going to happen here until you start putting pressure on the Palestinians. Giving them millions in aid is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing. Indeed, Ms. Ashton, the problem is not Israel--it is YOU!

reverse oslo, send fatah and their relatives all who came since oslo back to tunis, and annex judea and samaria.

Give Gaza back to Egypt. They will disarm them. Then Work out an Administration Deal with Jordan over the WB. Most importantly remove the PLO from the WB and undo Oslo. This Charade has gone on far enough.

No more Incentives or Compromises to the PA EU or the US How much is enough.

Let the E.U and the United States keep putting weak Sanctions on Iran , and the palestinians won't have land at all once iran starts lobbing missiles at Israel. What a Joke Iran is building the bomb and they want to talk about incentives and packages.

Ms. Ashton, do you think that maybe before you handed over $72 million to "refugees", you could have asked if this was enough of an incentive? I cannot for the life of me understand how you are ok with giving $72 million to the palestinians and then the next day they threaten to walk from talks and you are in a situation where you have to figure out an incentive for palestinians to keep talking. Ms. Ashton? Do you remember your trip to gaza a year ago when I escorted you thru the lines and you were attacked by a mob in gaza? Take it from me, appeasement never works in regards to the a-rabbs. Your $72 million just bought you an extension on the bloodshed, and I'm warning you, im running out of abanded factories to hit. I might actually have to protect israel next time, please hurry up and do something productive here and figure out that they, are just jerking your chain. And don't forget, a really good incentive thats been working for years is to make sure you condemn something we do. Its been working

this is how arabs bargain, they will gain a little by a little, and not given any at all. by no time, these "little by little" will accumulate into a big sum... while they will refuse to give anything things at all. you give them pre 1967 lines, they will beg, literally "beg" for pre 1948 lines, watch and see whether it's true! they will go on and on and on, forever, while their Israeli-arab mothers will breed and breed and destroy Israel from within in demographic upset! from arab villages to even E Jerusalem, Israeli-arabs will work within Israel while PA drag their feet! stupid EU, only if you withdraw the "never-ending cash-flow", then you can force arabs to talk!

Arrogant thieving Europe and EU states still hold on to 94% of Jewish Holocaust victims land, real estate, money, property and art work [totaling two trillion US dollars worth], which they refuse to give back, having made "reparation" of only a token 6% to date. Yet they demand that Israel "return" 100% of the land won in the Six-Day War to Arabs who never lived on it and never owned it. Israel gave "every grain of sand" to Egypt and did not get the "full peace, full normalization they were entitled to by treaty. Yet no EU pressure on Egypt to honor its side of the deal. EU has no legitimate role to play until they fork over "every grain" of Holocaust victims assets they hold and refuse to part with. Greedy EU enjoyed three Trillion dollars of US Marshall Plan aid and NATO security assistance from US [150 billion of which came from Jewish US taxpayers] - its time they returned ALL Holocaust assets instead of hiding behind "statute of limitations" claims.

Ms. Ashton, just give more money, so the Palestinian can demand even more, while Europe is broke, o-la-la. Once already the British gave part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler as an incentive, we know what happened within the next 7 years, 6 million Jews were murdered, while the world stood by.

The Palestinians have it backwards. They should be giving Israel incentives to talk with them. They need to get the hell out of Judea and Samaria, and go back to Syria. They have initiated constant war and terrorism for more than a century. They keep forgetting they lost and continue to act as if they were victorious. These invented people have it backwards! The Israeli government should make it clear: 1. Stop incitement, 2. Stop the terror attacks, 3. Stop the rocket and mortar fire, 4. Stop using religion to justify Palestinian terrorist attacks, 5. Palestinians should teach their children to venerate life instead of killing, 6. Palestinians should stop naming streets and squares for released terrorist killers, 7. Palestinian officials should stop saying one thing to their population in Arabic and lie about what they said in English. Americans are fed up with the PLO, the PLA, and Hammas. It's time to shake the pillars of the PLO and give them the opportunity to shape up and adopt western values or in the alternative they will simply become irrelevant.

money, sympathy from the fools of the world, and they get to send missiles into Israel with almost impunity. Until Israel chooses to absolutely declare what land is Israel and what land is left over for the arabs, this foolish discussion of "peace talks" will go on forever.

Israel is that the western border of the mythical state of palestine shall be contiguous with the western border of the mythical state of jordan: the jordan river.

If israeli leaders had any courage, they would break off any further negotiations, declare GAZA a free country (put larger walls up and never trade with the idiots), take at least 70% of JUDEA and SUMARIA and simply "allow" the pals to live on reservations like the native Americans do but declare it ALL Israeli land Let the world continue to pay welfare to the losers and cease any and all agreements and trade with them unless it's on a small level. Let the morons figure it out for themselves. It's time for Israel to move past the Arabs, steamroll them or dismiss them: whatever it takes. To hell with these terrorists. And if they launch attacks: destroy one village at a time, driving the putz' over the border to little fat man's land (Hussein)...it's already Palestinian-Arab. Enough is enough. Time to take a stand.

go to he!!

But that doesn't mean that they will get anything from us nor that they are in a position to demand anything from us. And while we're talking, we're building and resettling slowly and slowly our ancient homeland, and slowly slowly, the Arabs will feel the pressure and leave Judea and Samaria and move back to where they came from: the Arabian peninsula. But sure we can talk - we can talk for all eternity. We can talk for the sake of talking and we can also talk about the weather, but we will resettle and annex Judea and Samaria gradually and make the Arabs leave and make the Arabs understand that our land is Jewish and that they (the Arabs) can start 100 conventional wars, initiate 1000 terror wars/Intifadas and organize 10.000 demonstrations and burn 100.000 Israeli flags - and they will achieve nothing. We Jews will stay and the Arabs will leave. Period - end of story. But sure, we can talk by all means.

We are fed up with your pro Arab propaganda !!!!! SHOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is TOOOO much !!!! Hmmm...is there a gay marriage in the cards ??LOL

Can anyone explain why the package of incentives should come from Israel? Whatever the Pals need, with the exception of weapons, should come from other Arab countries.That they don't, tells you how the Arab countries view the Palestinians.They view them as the trouble makers they always have been, the very reason they were kicked out of Jordan.

livehood out of this "Palestinian" business? The European nobodies, unelected & un-loved have to scramble all the time to stay "relevant" as a policy-making apparatus. The Peace-Process is like a brain-dead, comatose body lying in hospital being, attached to new instrument every day, pumped up with wasted blood-transfusions just so the doctors can say "We keep on fighting" and a Rebbe (on the side) urges to expect "a Miracle" all while the family keeps on paying the bills. Reminds me a bit of someone....???!

Wouldn't we like to be a fly on the wall to see these two Dobermans barking around this EU lapdog!

The PA is still teaching hatred of Israel in its schools. Stopping that would be an easy and "substantial" step to take.

Ms Ashton if you are real CHRISTIAN & BELIEVER, do not force Israel.Deep down in your heart, you know very well to whom the land belong to. Do not go against G D wishes, Europe will be punished. No one knows how G D works. This is our land even before Islam was invented. Have G D FEAR

and again compromise and incentives until all of Israel finito and it will be An Arab country, and the Jews thrown to the sea as they have said it before. No Incentives, No Compromise.About time Israel stand very FIRM and to tell the European in a nice way to F@ $% oooooooooooFFFFFFFFFFFF

The Pallies came to the table for $75 000 000 propaganda reasons from the 'bankrupt EU suckers. Not to revive some dead Peace Proces. Now that they got what they wanted, they can go home and continue what they've been doing before...., 'plotting how to go about the next $ 75 million reasons to fool the EU suckers.

Carrots to the PA. Stick to Israel. I wish that we EU citizens could send Ashton packing as fast as Mr Netanyahu and Mr Lieberman could(and should). THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

After all,Abdullah's father and great grandfather had it within their power for 19 years,1948-1967,to give the PA everything that it is now demanding from Israel....and didn't. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!