"Abbas believes there is no point in negotiating with Israel, arguing that there is not enough common ground to close a deal". This makes absolutely no sense! You negotiate with your enemies if you want real peace. A deal will come if there is genuine interest on the part of Abbas and the Palestinians.

settlements you say? Guess what-its back to san remo conference, not only west bank but also jordan, historically, 1/3 or more of jordan belongs to israel. israel will now make its claim. We claim 1/3 of jordan as generally promised by san remo. Britain.s trucation of transjordan violated san remo and is null and void. Erekat and all of the arabs in judeal and samaria will recieve assistance in returning to their countries of origin-saudi, syria, lebanon, egypt and yemen. Those thinking of another intifada, you will be mowed down and erekat and the abbas gang will be tossed into solitary for life for incitement.

It's good to see the P.A. refusing to talk to Israel. The P.A. doesn't want to talk to Israel and the vast majority of Israel doesn't want to talk to the P.A. This is the best possible agreement with the terrorist P.A. We won't divide Jerusalem. We won't cede Judea and Samaria. We won't let Israel be overrun by hostile Arabs. We won't trim our waist to a suicidal 9 miles (15 minutes by tank). So there is nothing to talk to the P.A. about.

Abbas your in no position too dictate whats negotiable and what is not.Israel holds all cards etc,your water,your electricity in other words your everyday life.People should visit the west bank and see the building and contraction going on,the night life and I say good luck ,just keep the peace.Abbas you want peace for your people sit down and talk,its that easy

no BS (Baloney Sauce)! How refreshing!

THE PALESTINIAN/ARABIC/ISLAMIC PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE DISTANCE FROM/TO DROP THE DICTATORIAL, FORCED, ISLAMIC WORLD-CALIPHATE OF FOR EXAMPLE: AL QAIDA., IF THEY WANT A STATE/PEACE, WITH EVERY OTHER PEOPLE. THEN ISRAEL HAS TO MAKE AN AGREEMENT ABOUT JERUSALEM/AL QUDS AL SHARIF, THE GAZA-STRIP, THE SETTLEMENT-ISSUE TO SOLVE IT WITH THE OTHER PARTY. WITHOUT OR WITH THE ENTIRE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION AS THIRD PARTY, FOR EXAMPLE...

It is 100% Israeli territory. Personally am willing for the Arabs to keep that land in exchange for returning ALL their citizens that they left in our country.

Well, what is next! Israel push Palestinians to the edge! According to comments here, it seems Israelis are not likely to accept the peace process, so what is next. War again! Do Israelis want war! There is nothing in the hands of PA, PA doesn't even control anything! What is next Israelis, please tell me, what Israel wants!???

it's a total farce anyway!

...the exhumation orders for Oslo has been found to be incorrectly issued? The stake is still firmly driven thru that travesty's heart? I hope you realize that Shalom Ach-shiva is NOT going to enjoy this, at all. Oh well. They will soldier on (figuratively-not actually) and find some reason to be "Peed off" at those warlike, beligerant, bellicose (stop me when I get warm) and pushy (did I say PUSHY) SETTLERS, and their bekokter houses, farms, vineyards, enterprises and JOO'ishness, making more and more kiddies and puppies and kittens. hardly any honor killings, burnings, murders or stonings. Some neighbors, huh? Life will just not be the same with Abu Boo-boo, and his retinue of comical clowns, off making model camels or building explosive weskits and spats to settle their spats. If only them darned pesky JOOOZ would give in a little. Some dirt for peas. Maybe a day of collective national suicide of something,.....?

Right on, Joe, May I add a medical diagnosis: The mythical Falastyn nation, used as cannon fodder by their fellow Arabs, are suffering from Mass Paranoid Schizophrenia, with all the symptoms pertaining.

AN INSTITUTION AS THE ENTIRE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION SHOULD DO MORE, SO THAT THE ISRAELIAN/JEWISH-PALESTINIAN ISSUE COULD/CAN BE SOLVED AT LAST.

And why not, they will have demographic superiority and we all know how apartheid card was played in South africa. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, I think it is the 'greater eretz' folks who will be limping around in the coming years. This message is brought to you by a staunch supporter of the State of Israel.

“,,,there is no point in negotiating with Israel, [in] that there is not enough common ground to close a deal". Israel will not agree to divide Jerusalem, that Jerusalem is not Jewish, to withdraw to ‘Auschwitz borders’ (an apropos name), to allow thousands of the enemy into Israel, to allow the “pals” to continue to teach their children to kill Jews, to assist in the perpetuation of their fake ‘history’, to agree to no rights at the Cave of Machpelah, Rachels Tomb and other Jewish holy places, to allow so many arabs to live so close to Israels borders without any regard for security measures for Israel (Israel has been attacked by the arabs many times, not the other way around. The ‘refugee’ situation is of their own making) nor will Israel allow an armed “Pal” state unless there are many, many years in which the arabs can give proof of peaceful intentions, ad infinitum. And step one should be an unequivocal acceptance by the arabs of a Jewish state; Israel.

The palestinian ilk want one thing, and it ain't peace, folks. They want Jews dead, period. Nothing more. They don't care about land. They don't care about peace. They care about Jews dying.....all of us. On March 7, 2112, there will still be no peace. Why? The infection has no desire for peace, only for the deaths of Jews. The palestinians live for death. They teach "martyrdom" in schools to kids as they learn ONE THING....The koran. The pallies love death. They glorify it. They look forward to it. Violence is all they can offer, period.

Peace agreements with Arabs aren't worth the paper they are written on (cf. the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt). So what do these retards want exactly to talk about?

Erekat said it clear and we should finally take his word...there will be no peace and therefore we should move with all deliberate speed to declare Judea & Samaria sovereign Israeli land and Jerusalem OUR undivided Capitol. Palestinians may now return to their homeland of Jordan and the Israeli-Palestinian problem is no more.

Why is a man, who has not negotiated with Israel for some years now, and who states on an almost daily basis that he refuses to negotiate, given the title of "Cheif Negotiator". Very strange indeed.

arabian dessert waiting for you. take your rungs and camels and be gone.

If Bibi were as firm with the Pales as he was at the UN and with Obama, the Pales would, as with Iran, think twice about their approach. For Abbas to have any credibiity, he must have a sponsor, who will back up his demands and force Israel ( either China, Russia, Turkey, iran, or the Arab League). I dont believe they want to duke it out with Israel. The PA went to the UN and threatens to continue that pressure..hoping the SC will all vote for a state. That would change some things, and bad for Israel. The US (like China and Russia-Syria) wont give in. So, ChinaRussia aids Syria, the US aids Israel. Its a wash. Israel might consider, making some moves, for ex. annexting parts of the W. Bank. Clamping down on its 5th column, since they are anti-Israel (Jewish) anyway. Arresting Tibi and others for sedition. Using heavier force against protestors. ( See SWAT). If Abbas wont talk, so be it. Israel still controls the high ground. I would also suggest, Israel induce 1m more Zionist Jews to relocate there, even if temporarily. As Bibi said, no more Auschwitzes..no more Holocausts. He should mean it, and with 500 nukes..Israel now has the power to enforce its survivaly. Iran will use Israel's stalling to divide where it can, support for Israel/Iran's enrichment program. Just as Hitler used the Jews to unite disparate elements in Europe.

In Addition to the 1:1 land swap the palestine can agree to settle for half a million refugees representatives of families forced out in the brutality of war caused by Arab and Islamic rejection of the partition principles of 1937 and 1947. The Jews will need as a vital measure have to control security.

#19 - The peace deal with Egypt was extremely beneficial for Israel, there's not even a question about it. And it wasn't signed with Muslim Brotherhood.. #20 - and what if the Palestinians don't want to leave their homes and emigrate to Jordan ? What then ?

Oops !! chief.

The point of reason in the mind of Abbas is not the settlements issue at all. if this man was interested in setting his people free of seventy years of misery he would be banging on the door of the Knessett and asking for help to oppose Hamas' policy of terror and murder. But no. He doesn't and he is a lousy leader of his people. What interests him? Dead Israelis. What he wants is a war. He wants Hamas to do the bloody fighting..... and he doesn't care if however the Hamas guys end up dying. Because he hates Hamas. He wants a war that leads to international pressure on Israel to quit the West Bank. I am making Aliyah this year. Before Israel Independence Day.

a jewish revolt ocurred shortly after 70 ad when the romans sacked sion after a bitter siege,the rebellion was caused by the roman occupying forces,roman emperor adrian publis aelios adrianos punished the surviving jews,the renamed to sion with his name and as the god of jupiter capitoline aelia capitolina and the romans gave it the name palestine to judea,aelia capitolina did not last for sion but palestine if somehow it was worked to him remain to the region including judea and their surroundings,israel today was once thousands of years ago,palestine does not appear in the bible,this lies and hatred of thousands of years soon will explode,instigated by the god of this world satan the devil,the accuser if the cause of this human nature,the cause of all wars,wickedness and confusion where do come wars and disputes among you? it is not of your passions which fight in your members? you covet and you do not have,you kill and burn with envy and you can not reach,you combat and you what but you do not have what you want because you ask not ye ask and received not because ye ask evil to spend on your delights,satan is the great deceiver so great that most can not even believe that there is,real peace the kind that last for always does not come until the end of this era,read as come as the world peace you will find this will open the eyes as it is in the middle east in the prophecies of the bible,the present dilemma will not be resolved until the arrival of the king of peace jesus christ and the kingdom of God

further demands. For decades they have been promising their people the opposite, so they know they cannot deliver. Repeated surveys of Pals show that, unlike Israelis,the majority do not want a permanent 2 state peaceful coexistence. They don't talk about" liberating" the vast majority of mandate Palestine because that is already Arab.

Peace is impossible because the settlements Israel has built over 20+ years while pretending to negotiate peace makes it impossible for us to have a viable state of our own on the lands.