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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| ME peace talks suspended |
| 2010-09-30 |
| [Arab News] The Paleostinian negotiator Nabil Sha'ath ... who has been "negotiating" since about the late Pleistocene... on Tuesday said that the there will be no new rounds of direct peace talks with Israel unless a solution on Jewish settlement building is reached. Whoa! Nobody saw this one coming, did they?... Oh. Never mind. Abbas said he will not respond to the move until he "We demand a moratorium for as long as there are negotiations, because for as long as there are negotiations there is hope," he told a French radio station on Tuesday during a visit to Paris. There have been "negotiations" since approximately 1948 1/2. We're all just oozing hope, by Gum. "We don't want to stop these negotiations, but if settlement building continues, we will be obliged to stop," Abbas said. They didn't want to start the negotiations with the Hated Zionists™ and they're not offering anything of value to put a hold on construction. Sha'ath, also member of Fatah's Central Committee, said in a statement that the direct peace talks, which the US relaunched on Sept. 2, will remain suspended "as long as the Israeli government doesn't stop settlement construction." On Sunday, Israel ended a 10-month partial moratorium on building in the West Bank settlements, provoking the Paleostinian Authority (PA), which had threatened to pull out of the talks with Israel if the moratorium would not be extended. The United States and the European Union have also called on Israel to renew the building freeze. Sha'ath said that the Paleostinian leadership was hoping to hear an Israeli decision extending the moratorium by Oct. 4, when the Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo to assess the negotiations and decide on their future. The Paleostinian negotiator stressed that the Paleostinians will not accept any middle-ground compromise to the settlement. "There is no alternative to one formula ending this crisis: the full stopping of the settlement building, even for a specific time." The development came as Mitchell was expected to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday and Abbas in the West Bank on Thursday but, as on previous visits, he was unlikely to comment publicly on the content of the talks. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Paleostinian negotiators had "wasted time" during the moratorium but added that it was important to "keep the political process alive." For "nine months the Paleostinians wasted time and completely refused to accept this gesture and accused Israel that it's a fraud, it's not serious," Lieberman said after meeting with UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the founder of Israel Land Fund Aryeh King on Tuesday announced that building of dozens of housing units for Jewish occupier in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah will begin soon. King said that the decision of Israeli High Court of Justice has "prevented the owners from using land they owned for almost 10 years. Now that things have changed, we'll be able to begin building." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 A definite thumbs-up on Firefly. As for the failed 'peace negotiations', I blame the Juice. (yeah, me and the rest of the world!) If they would just throw themselves into the sea, the Arabs could get back to fighting amongst themselves as God intended. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-09-30 22:35 |
| #4 the boxed DVD set is out and around for some time now :-) and Serenity, the movie |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-09-30 19:03 |
| #3 Firefly was a great series. loved that scene. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2010-09-30 09:47 |
| #2 Paul Tibbets was a very effective negotiator between us and Japan... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-09-30 08:25 |
| #1 Israel always does badly in "Peace" negotiations. Maybe we should hire a negotiator. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-09-30 06:19 |