We are not stupid. We negotiated for 20 years while Israel built more and more settlements all over our lands. We know Israel's real goal is to expel all the Palestinians from the West Bank using the settlements. There is no point in negotiating with an enemy who is trying to push you out of your home! I support Abbas for refusing to negotiate. Let Israel prove it is serious about peace by stopping its settlements.

If your have something to say, you can do it in normal sentences but NOT IN ALL CAPITALS, ONLY JERKS WRITE IN ALL CAPITALS, GET THE PICTURE?

Oh well, the Palestinians are not willing to negotiate peace without conditions. If no is their answer unless... then so what. In my view they are not interested in peace anyway..

for the pa leadership to make hard choices to advance the peace process. It is time they show they are willing to make hard sacrifices to advance the peace process. Why must it always be Israel, who came into the disputed territories as victors of a defensive war they neither asked for nor instigated by any other fact than they exist, that must "make the hard choices and sacrifices" always demanded by the arabs and their sympathizers?

34 - What ARE you talking about? Israel is occupying, stealing and settling the West Bank in defiance of the UN and international law. It has a long list of unconditional, illegal demands as if it was Hitler's Germany dictating the terms over Sudetenland, racist-Jew-supremacist terms that no country in the world would accept. Israel has not offered to compromise on ONE SINGLE POINT AT ISSUE, it is all gimme, gimme, gimme, Jews demand free land, for we are the Chosen Ones and do not need to follow any laws. The only hard choice the PA has is whether to go to the UNGA and thereby the ICC, the 'peaceful' route, or to admit that you can't negotiate with crooks and thieves, Hamas was right all along and the Pal people now need a campaign of civil and guerilla resistance against the Israeli intruders ans land-thieves.

<"Israel has not offered to compromise on ONE SINGLE POINT AT ISSUE, it is all gimme, gimme, gimme"> Israel WITHDREW from Gaza, remember? And what they got was rockets and terrorism in return. The arabs showed their true colors. It's dangerous to keep your eyes and ears so tightly shut. I hope you at least open your eyes when you cross the street.