the negotiations even commence? Is this what we have come to: Both the US and Israel must bow down and kiss the feet of those who, until recently were designated a terror group? Isn't this an act akin to the acts carried out by Mafia families...??

Jews are allowed to build and settle anywhere throughout the Land of Israel, freely and safely, including all lands Israel reclaimed in 1967. Jews can buy and develop any land they want to, in any way they want to, whether for housing, industry or agriculture. Jews will have to right to continue to expand their presence anywhere in their ancestral homeland.

A museum of all the Genocides expulsions refusal to grant Refugees Sanctuary all laws of Discrimination including Dhimmi ought be constructed in AreaC guarded by Shock Troops Navy Commandos and Advanced Ballistic missiles and Fighter Pilots .

Your assertion that the Palestinians deserve everything that Israel has is flawed, the Palestinians are no more deserving than any other stateless people, some would reasonably argue they are less deserving because of their violent methods. Also palestianins can only expect their demands to be met if said demands do not result in unreasonable security compromises, this everything for nothing maximal attitude is infantile.

Lebanon. Return Egypt to the real Egyptians.

collect the Insurance money a la the Gaza Power Station and the Twin Towersnand give the bill to the US taxpayers.

Abbas seems like he has rational requests, but once granted the evil intent would again surface. Tell him NO. In fact, just tell him to leave Jewish soil forever.

Israel needs no more Arab labor, potential terrorists or squatters. Israel now needs to draw up its own preconditions: no land claims for so called refugees, Jerusalem, Israel recognized as the Jewish state-that is for starters.

I checked out several other web sites and not one word about airports, work permits, or anything else listed above.

B"H - I want a swimming pool with two mermaids in it, one blond and the other black

Get used to it. The partition plan which Israel accepted called for creating two states on the land west of the Jordan. Those two states --Israel and Palestine-- now exist even if they refuse to formally recognize each other. We have a right to secure borders and to continue the military occupation as needed for self-defense but we have have no moral or legal right to settle the west bank. End of story.

Under the new rules Bibi will remain in power even if Bennet, Lieiberman and a few disgruntled Likudniks resign from the government. There is simply no way that that the right can form a majority government of 65MKs to replace Bibi. It doesn't much matter what Likud does to Bibi in the future --Likud's days as a dominant party are numbered.

Ha yeah! Next trip for the kids Ramallah!

The Palestinians come up with new demands everyday before they'll sit down, and Kerry is pressuring us???? What am I missing here? And really, Abbas is concerned with Palestinian "tourism". Is that what some call "black humor?"

What next?

I do wonder if you are as vociferous in your critisism of the goings on in homs which is completely and utterly destroyed or the human suffering in many other countries around the world or is it only your hate for the Jews and Israel that has you critisise it like you do. abbas sits there like a spoilt little child, which is what the palastinian people have become, and demand and kick and scream. Thats why they dont get what they "want"!!

If the pallies would be interested in peace they would not demand any preconditions. Preconditions is only set up for obstructions to peace. All subjects are to be solved in negotioations and thorough mutual agreements. NO PRECONDITIONS!

In any good relationship, if you have ever had one, you will know that inorder to achieve a middle ground and agree on things you have to talk. The israeli's say NO when the palis demand and rightly so!! When the palastinians realise that they cannot make demands with no preconditions then they will continue to be stopped as the Government Of Israel has every right to protect her integrity, something you think she doesnt have but she does! The palis have no integrity, thats the problem here!!

It is clear that the PA is unable to run state of their own. So Israeli is right to expand their territories in all the west bank. Let palestinian thieves be located in Saudies.

While setting preconditions is not a good idea, an airport in Ramallah actually does make a lot of sense. The Palestinian state in a two-states solution cannot rely on cars moving through Israel. The road traffic in Israel is very bad. Flying over Israel is safer. And, if Palestinian light planes will fly over Israel, nobody will dare to launch rockets from Gaza or Ramallah.

If the President of the United States is supposed to be the most powerful man in the world then why does Obama act as if that position belongs to this pathetic little Napoleon Abbas? If Obama wants to EARN his Nobel Joke Prize he will tell Kerry to deliver a message to Abbas and tell him straight, no more games, you want the American money or political support then you sit down unconditionally without preconditions. Abbas wants something from America then America wants something from him and will not continue to submit to Abbas demands. All over the arab world dictators are starting to fall but Abbas is trying to turn himself into their successor, kind of makes you feel nostalgic for the Arafat years. The EU of course with their new boycott is only going to make things twice as bad because Abbas will look at it as though he has the world on his side and he can make any demand he likes and the rest of the world will officially support it

The first murder of a Jew by an arab occured in the 1880's . At this time arabs came here to work for the Jews who were rebuilding their old homeland . There were ALWAYS Jews living here . Arabs in Israel enjoy more liberty than in any other of the surrounding countries , the PA included .

there has never been a palestinian state.

David, the reason for not having an airport because one simple reason, they can commit suicide middle of Tel-Aviv and thousands of Israelis will be killed.

else..., watch out for your children. And, the wealthy shopkeeper, Kerry, responds by paying - at Israel's expense - the extortion money. Shame on you, Mr. Kerry, for bowing down to the Mafia boss, shame on you!!

The British created the state of (Trans-)Jordan as a homeland for the Arabs who were living in Palestine. Now go and live there. Forget the partition plan; the minute you refused to accept it, it was off the table. At that time, Judea and Samaria were part of the designated Jewish Homeland which then became the State of israel. your homeland - Jordan - along with Egypt, lebanon, Syria et al., went to war against us, and in doing so conquered and retained Judea and Samaria. It was never soverign Jordanian territory, but occupied illegally by Jordan. We took back, in 1967, what was, and is, rightfully ours. Now just stay quietly on your balcony, smoking whatever it is that's giving you these delusions.

So the reported new preconditions from Abbas? - a small airport (small planes and helicopters) in Ramallah (in Area A) - building hotels on the Dead Sea coast (transferring land from Area C to B or A) - more visas into and work permits in Israel These are on top of his old ones: - building freeze in Judea and Sumeria - building freeze in East Jerusalem - release the convicted terrorists who were convicted prior to the signing of Oslo Accords - agreement to use the 1948 armistice line as the point of reference for boarders - ethnic cleansing of Judea and Sumeria, again - agreement to a "just resolution" for the Palestinian refugees and 4 generations of their descendents ( who would not qualify if they were any other refugee population), but not for the Jews expelled from Arab countries Did I miss any other preconditions?

Why do you think its fair that the “Pals” get all they want, before negotiations, while they still have the destruction of Israel as their goal? Why do you think its fair that the “Pals” get what Israel took years to create, on a silver platter, without anything (not even an agreement) in return? Why do you not think its fair that the “Pals” demonstrate some “confidence building measures” for once? [Israeli-arabs vote and are in government and the Supreme Court. They go to the same hospitals as Jews to be treated by the same Jewish and arab doctors. A Jew in the WB would be killed. The racism is the arabs. And by your post, evidently yours as well.]