What talks? Abbas and Erekat blew it...again. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

...core issues without any preconditions. After two sessions, the PLO/PA demanded the first precondition: cease construction inside Jewish villages and towns, and that despite the fact that "settlements" were to be a "core issue", to be discussed without preconditions. Now, the Arabs weave a fabric full of fabrications and will call it their "narrative".

in the header it speaks of approving building past green line, in the actually article it says nothing about that. Are some of your writers still in highschool?

More inanities from the "Palestinian" leadership. No, the truth of the matter is that -- predictably enough -- the "Palestinians" shot themselves in the foot by being their usual intransigent selves during the ten months of the freeze. Just to show you how delusional they are, they actually took it as a given that Obama would be able to persuade (or bully) Israel into extending the freeze. Well, it didn't work. The "Palestinians" have only themselves to blame. Not that they will, of course; they are masters of self-deception and at pointing the finger .... after nearly seventy years of incredibly bad choices, it's still always the fault of someone else. It's never -- heaven forfend! -- the fault of the "Palestinians." Do you know when things might change for the better? When the "Palestinian" leadership finally takes ownership of its poor choices -- you know, engaging in terrorism, starting intifadas, sending suicide bombers and the like. But that might actually require serious introspection and honest self-appraisal and, as the "Palestinians" have proven on occasions too numerous to count, it is SO much more fun to blame Israel. Well, here's a head's up: That isn't going to work any more. The "Palestinians" are welcome to be as delusional as they like. They are also going to have to get used to engaging in their self-deception from Jordan. It's not as if they haven't had ten, fifty, a thousand, ten million chances to adopt a rational course of action. They've had far too many bites at the apple already. It's high time that they slid very gently into the slot that they have built for themselves -- historical oblivion.

surly ynet is in love with imam erekat believe me all the time erekat said this erekat said that article upon article about this baffon i have had enough i have nothing to eat here in gaza and the only thing you talk about is imam erekat

Erekat is just Abu Mazan's henchman trying to weasel out of negotiating. A journalist should ask Erekat the hard question: Will Fatah sign a peace treaty that doesn't include Gaza? The answer, of course, is they can't. Meaning they can't sign a peace treaty while Hamas is in power in Gaza. Meaning it ain't gonna happen with or without construction. Meaning, of course, construction is just they easy excuse for the Pals to avoid the talks, since they're powerless to reach a peace treaty.

erekat is a crummy liar desperately trying to ignore the criminal activities of his corrupt allies.

Did you miss this one, darling? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3981509,00.html

"surly YNet?" I think I'm in love. Please tell me that was not just a typographical error.

As a Balestinian I am imbressed by Erekat. I can feel he will beat the jews with his great wisdom, like all other entallagent Balestinian leaders. The jews they have wabons, we have brens! Like hokus bokus we will take Israil because of cleber movs in UN wher our arab brothers will vot for us. Before you kno we will bring back our belovd donkys and camels to fill the land from Elat to Tal Abib. No more horibl glas bildings and combuter control of life just beutiful natural atmosfir. My grandfathr he told me this was life when he embloyd to clean kibutz hammam. Ah the good old dais! The jews are not like us because they like washing 2 tims a day and but berfume and not smell natural. We lov smell natural, it also blend well with natur around us.

go to Jordan ! Israel is jewish it is written in the Coran as well

Let me get this straight,Rashid.You have nothing to eat in Gaza,but you have the internet.Pull the other one. If you've had enough,direct your objections to your oppressors;Meshal,Haniyeh,a-Zahar and the rest of the Hamas terrorist cronies who hold you as a pawn in their cynical plans. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

No, no! Rashid, Palistinian is a breath of fresh air on these boards. He is no more Palestinian than I am -- in fact, I'm reasonably sure that he's a Brit, just like you. But maybe not a Jordie. He's rollicking good fun, in any event .... and now he appears to have some competition from Musa Al Himar. Ooh, I'm going to enjoy this!

peace talks with ereckat are a waste of time. Wel trained at England'sBradford University, he is a dogged first class BS artist with endless king hussein threats-last chance for peace, war is likely which scared olmert and livni so they offered concessions. palestinian nationhood cannot be imposed. The arabs on west bank are jordanians, south syrians, lebanese and egyptians. They have no sense of self. All they know is they want UN and US handouts, and israel to be gone. Hamas is the old moslem brotherhood, same as what is in egyptian. All these pals should be returned to jordan who is rightly worried. Israel should educate that arabs that they sit on ancient israeli land and they have to leave except for the druse and some bedouin. jews are western oriented, arabs are eastern. Jews are democratic. Arabs are autocratic mafia gangs. It is impossible to reconcile these 2 groups. Freedom of speech is one thing, treason is another. Zoabi, salah, zamalkha and the others reflect the arab narrative. Fine-do it as part of jordan. Ereckat's techniques work very well with israeli oven minders beilin, ben ami, olmert, livni, dekel,braverman, idzik, herzog even merridor and all of haaretz writers and US and nato apologists. right now it is about as good as it will get so to engage in talks will only create false expectations. I listen to rashid kallili and I hear his rationalizations in descriptive language as ereckat bullst. But obama hears and believes it. Israel has to sometimes tell US it is going its separate way and with some conviction. Not like the pusssy olmert who told bush he was disturbed by him not wanting to bomb syria. How do jews produce and o lmert, a livni, a beilin? I don't get it!!

he's refusing to even talk to israel (and refusing to even consider recognizing the jewish state) and of course israel is to blame for it. seems like chutzpah is not in short supply in the the palestinian authority.

I like you like my bost. When myty Balestinian bibl difit jews and but them in bots in the see I fight for you to stay in Balestine becos you nice berson. Evrybody else on bots! Also I only have 2 wife so we see, he? We make room.

A cursory glance at a map proves that Judea and Samaria are absolutely vital for Israel's survival, as well as being rightfully our for more than 3,500 years. The fact that massively settling Judea and Samaria prevents a deadly "peace deal" with the P.A., which would render Israel defenseless with an 8 mile border, is icing on the cake. Judea and Samaria are the gifts that keep giving.

"Make room?" Hell, no! I get my own home. Actually, I want a deal like Suha Arafat -- $10 million per month stipend and a big fancy apartment on the avenue d'Iena in Paris. Like her, I will even agree to be artificially inseminated, and bear a child for you. Tell me -- Are you gay like Y.A.? You're not going to die of AIDs on me, like he did to lucky Suha, are you?

AIDS and HIV might be a joke to you, but it is not to the millions of HIV patients around the world. Your insensitive and immature abuse of this disease for cynical political commentary hardly paints you as a "lawyer" but who am I kidding Sarah? We both know you're a loser. Hell, I even suspect you're a man with balls and ED.

funny. building was not the issue then TA ALL! Face it....one excuse after another to keep killing JEWS

Oh, I'm not making fun of AIDs. Far from it. I am making fun of the late, unlamented Yasser Arafat (may his name be cursed throughout eternity). Given how Islam feels about homosexuality, I find myself wondering how many Arab and Islamic leaders would have been all that pleased about being photographed embracing him -- especially the little poison from Iran. How unfortunate that you lack the simple intellect to recognize satire when you read it. Oh well. I'm not really all that surprised. You're not all that smart.

First thing Ya Himar,you will never be as inteligent as the Jews,What the Muslims have contributed to the world,only violence,suicide bombing,shite killing sunnis,sunnies killing shite,and problems to the world.Your hokus bokus it will never work,and we dont give a damn about UN.To us UN is equal to UNITED NAZIS.Shame on you that 1.5 billion Muslims cannot defeat few million Jews.Stay with your DONKEYS & CAMELS and you will blend nicely with them

Oh, honey, you missed the boat on this one. "Musa al Himar" has crafted a stunning piece of satire, worthy of Jonathan Swift. C'mon -- grow a sense of humor! What's life without laughter?

Nothing to eat in Gaza,Palestinian Rashid but the pictures and videos on Youtube and elsewhere paint an entirely different picture and the hundtreds of UN aid convoys going in every single day from Israel and Egypt so why are you still starving when the criminal empire of Haniyeh/Mashaal and al -Zahar is the major employer of illiterate Muslim peasants like yourself ,tunnel digging and maintenance thereof ,paying up to $ 100 per day ,where,s all this aid and money disappearing to or is it just another Muslim Taqiyyah ?

Shhh. Relax. Rashid, Palistinian is as Palestinian as you or I. I'm certain he's Jewish; less reasonably certain that he's a Brit. Whatever he is, he is extraordinarily funny, and a master of tongue-in-cheek repartee and satire. Sit back and enjoy -- he is a great deal of fun, and a welcome respite from the usual sturm-und-drang on this website, courtesy of the real Arabs and their apologists.

It,s time for someone from Ynet to take a few photographs of the chief clown of the Palestinian cicrus Saeb Erekat,s Pallywood style villa in Ramallah and post them right here so the Palestinian sheep who regularly post their tirades can see what ,s happening and will happen when so called Palestine eventually get,s up on it,s own feet and stops stealing US and EU taxpayers dollars ,so when Ynet ?

Israel before 1967? East Jerusalem was part of Jordan, so was the West Bank. Gaza was part of Egypt. Did they sign a peace agreement with us? No way! On the contrary: they constantly murdered Israeli Jewish infants and innocent citizens. They may fool those who want to believe them not those who seek the truth. Obama and Mrs. Ashton may kiss as many Muslim asses as they wish but that will not change the truth. The truth is that Muslims preach peace but act against it. We are in the middle of a war between western culture and Muslim fanatic lack of culture. Let us not fool ourselves and let us not allow them to fool us.

insulting and out of place.