it only finances death of Jews. Never was or will be a palestine unless it's Jordan. KEEP BUILDING !!!

The better way forward is Unofficial Arrangemenys little on Paper .Eventually Not yet the Arabs get more in the West Bank and Islamic Israel the Jewish Security Strengthens and Palestinian Human Rights if Peaceful Improve.The Social Gap narrows Daily ..

Israel continued the settlement construction in the occupied territories and failed to honor its commitment to release the prisoners, which de facto caused the suspension of the negotiations and now is calling Abbas as the one who gave "the coup de grace" to the peace process. The unity deal could be looked at positively since it implies that hamas, for once, will be bound by Fatah's commitment to non-violence and the recognition of Israel. Blaming the Palestinians for the failure of the negotiations is pure hypocrisy.

end all financing of the U.N. and tell them it's time to move to another country.

... the proper historic context. Both the international community and the State of Israel have made many peace offers, proposals, gestures and opportunities, all of which have been rejected by the Arabs, since 1920. Let us examine why: 1920, San Remo conference decisions, ejected 1922, League of Nations decisions, rejected 1937, Peel Commission proposal, rejected 1947, UN General Assembly proposal, rejected 1948, Israel's stretched out hand for peace, rejected 1967, Israel's stretched out hand for peace, rejected 1978, Begin/Saadat peace proposal, rejected 1995, Rabin's Contour-for-Peace, rejected 2000, Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected 2005, Sharon's peace gesture, rejected 2008, Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected 2009 to 2013, Netanjahu's invitation to peace talks, rejected 2014, Obama/Kerry contour for peace, rejected The single common denominator of all the above rejections, spanning 94 years, has been the implicit and/or explicit requirement of the Arabs to accept the RIGHT to be, to exist of a sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people on a portion of the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. And, since categorically the Arabs reject the Jews's right to sovereignty on ANY parcel of land of the Jewish people's homeland, hence the above rejections. This has been and continues to be the essence of the Arab Israeli conflict, its core. It is about time all knew and appreciated it.

NOTHING outside Israels UNILATERALLY declared borders belongs to Israel and YES the Palestinian do not want to give Israel a sliver more of their land so the 'peace talks' are useless because Israel refuses to honor its own self imposed obligations ie UN242

Why should Israeli release Israeli citizens who have committed acts of terrorism even if they are Israeli Arabs? If Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bomber) or Ted Kozinski (the unibomber) were alive, do you think that the United States government would release these terrorists if Iran demanded it as a condition to negotiate with us? I'm quite sure that the American people would not go along with that demand. Makes no sense. All of Abbas's demands are laughable. We aren't giving up East Jerusalem. The Jordanians had it prior to the 6 day war and Jews could never go there to pray. If they didn't claim it as their capital then, why is it so important to them (the Palestinians) now? Besides, if it is so holy to them then how come Hamas leveled missiles at it during Operation Pillar of Defense? You don't bomb places that are holy to you...

Where do you get this from? If they come out with a statement saying they accept the right of Jews for a state in Israel and promise to stop all violence, they will join the peace talks the next day, But unfortunately you're just making things up. They still dream of no Israel and killing all Jews ... and Christians.. and Muslims who are not the right kind of Muslims

The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea existed long before anyone ever heard of Arabs. Should have taken the deal in 1947. But you'll never lose any money betting on the "Palestinians" to act stupidly. The "Palestinians" started -- and lost -- six wars. There is a price to pay for that; no exceptions. No magical exemption for the "Palestinians."

abbas was crowned king of the arab palestinian terrorists by none other than the american president barack obama. ever since then, when abbas was the first foreigner to receive a phone call from obama, the glory has gone to the head of abbas. now abbas, the illegitimate leader of a rootless group of people, thinks that he can dictate pre-conditions for the mere pleasure of talking to him, to the sovereign jewish state of israel. this is what happens when the american state department, its head, and its spokeswoman, put a sovereign state on the same level as the non-elected supposed leader of a small group of people who have no identity, no culture, no distinct history--a people who never had sovereignty, a people who are part of the huge arab umma, who are used as pawns by their arab brethren in their goal to destroy the jewish state of israel.

you can't pick and choose parts of history that agree with you and then ignore the rest. No state Israel before 1948, true. but to imply there was never a Jewish homeland there before 1948 is false. like it or not the Kingdom of Israel is a part of recorded history. I can name you Kings poets artists, people that actually existed. on the other hand, with the exception of made up articles on Wikipedia ( ie 40,000 BC Palestine) Palestine as a country and never existed in history. you cannot name any kings or poets or artists , or names of people who actually lived in that belong to " historical Palestine". I'm not saying that before 1948 of the majority of people there were Jews . I'm saying that Jews Muslims Christians and whoever else was living there were a part of the empires the conquered the area one after another ending with the League of Nations creating all the modern countries you know today like Lebanon , Jordan , Iraq , Israel , etc. if I have missed something PLEASE let me know. in No way does information make you a traitor to any cause. those who choose to stay ignorant have a right to, but lose the right to claim they "know"!

rob, or mohamed? you can not get it straight, unfortunately. your brain is twisted, so how could you get it straight?

Israel NEVER existed before 1948 If there was a dumb statement of the day award you would win it hands down. Nothing could top that but "Lydia is an intelligent woman" could give it a run for it's money.

Arabs living in wB (J&S) reach the same level of misery enjoyed by the residents of Gaza and reported by Reuters on this site.

Right on Sarah, Also, there are unusually many moronic, ignorant articles in this recent crop. Obviously under assumed names, they were paid for by the unlimited, world-wide Jew-baiting petro-$$$$ ! When world's best brains, specializing in glibness and subtle distortion of true facts are hired to do their nefarious work, the results are tragically predictable and NOT in favor of the Jewish cause. Thanks for intelligent writings.

Bit ironic someone in Australia passing judgement on the historical legitimacy of a country! Your history dates all of a few hundred years compared to thousands the jews have been in Israel. Why dont you mention the many countries that became sovereign nations well after 1948?,

the people of gaza have no one but themselves to blame for their difficulties. they voted for leaders islamist terrorists.

pretending to present a united "palestinian" government...he has pushed his American bankrollers into a position that even they find unacceptable, financing the Hamas terrorist organization as part of a "united palestinian government". What a joke! "palestinians" have the leadership they deserve, now when will they finally realize that their "leader" is actually the Hashemite king of Jordan?

...and intermarriage, just like everyone else. Join the melting pot, join the "Mongrel Race". 11 not mine.

Nothing personal...we will not change our history to please Zionism.

...as dead as a ten year old fish ar an OSLO peacesmorgesbord, or a Hilarious Klinton diet. And THAT is lifeless!!

...so let say Israel will not give up East Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Autority will not recognize Israel as a jewish state because they recognized Israel as a jewish state already in 1993. The Palestinians want to celebrate elections in a few months. Abbas could not be willing to run as a candidate for the AP Presidency. What could happen if Israel makes an offer to Abbas to became a virtual mayor of East Jerusalem, on pre- condition that Hamas political party will not run on the Palestinians elections?

Of the ancient people who have survived through thousands of years, is the jewish people. The Edomites, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and even the former Philistines have just wasted away, blown away in the wind. But THE ONLY ANCIENT PEOPLE still around us to today, on this earth, living in the State of Israel, is the jewish people, coming from the old Hebrews/isralites people. The hebrew people lived in the land, in the ages of patriarchs, east of the Mediterrean,before beings taken to Egypt as slaves. AND, it was to this same area they were led out of Egypt to settle again, TOGETHER with those who had escaped being taken as slaves. The coastline was dominated by the boat-people from the current Greek islands, called the Philistines, whom were NOT arabs. So, the jewish people coming from Egypt, settled in the inside country, Galilee, Samaria, Megiddo, Schemec, Judah, Jerusalem, Hebron, Beer-Sheba. To the west of Jordan river, at the highlands, were the kingdom of Edom, Moab and Ammon. And, as said before the old non-arabs, Philistines have vanished into other cultures, tribes. The current Islamic population, the so-called Palestines, is an invented name (Arafat did!!) , on the immigrants from arab states, after the battle of Yarmulk. which started the Islamic immigration. Before this, the jews were mainly living in the area of Haifa, Hebron, Rample, Gaza, Jerusalem, and were also populated over the whole country in small communities. So, the truth is the islamic-cult immediately, from the year 636, started persecutions, confiscations, conversions and pogroms against the jewish people. And, the Islamic-cult is still acting as if they own the ONLY truth in the world, and behaves as terrorists to prove it... Do not fall in the same trap...convert..:-)

You beat ALL Arab army in six days but when Shrub gave the great Israeli army laden with US weapons Israeli soldiers bolted home after getting thrashed by Hezbollah rag tag army of resistance fighters.

If they are then its equal rights and justice and compensation for years of subjugation and prejudice. Israel exists ONLY within its declared borders enshrined in the UN or Israel would have added these sites to its proclamation of a Jewish State

Read the document

Only a fool like you can believe an Arab and a terrorist that Hamas and fatal will sleep in peace together, you already forgot the last time they reconciled, fatal member in gaza were thrown off rooftops and the rest were thrown out of gaza or killed.

c.1011-971 BCE [BC] Phoenicia and Israelite Alliance c. 970-960 BCE [BC] First Temple built by King Solomon c. 928 BCE [BC] Kingdom of Israel divided into Kingdom of Israel, and Kingdom of Judah c. 597 BCE [BC] Babylonian Captivity c.537 BCE [BC] Jews RETURN [emphasis mine] and rebuild Second Temple 70 CE [AD] Destruction of Second Temple. Most Jews leave area to dwell in Judah and Samaria 1948 CE [AD] Nation of Israel is reborn. Your move.