PA Will Not Negotiate With Israel Unless…
January 23, 2010 by Jason DeMars
Filed under Current Events and Prophecy
The US envoy to the Middle East was holding talks with the Palestinian leader on Friday afternoon, even as hopes that Washington could restart Israeli-Palestinian peacenegotiations anytime soon continued to fade.
US President Barack Obama’s Mideastenvoy failed Friday to lure Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas back to peace talks with Israel, as Abbas stuck to his insistence that an Israeli settlement freeze come first.
Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said following the Mitchell-Abbas meeting that the onus is on Israel, not the Palestinians.
“When we say a settlement freeze that includes Jerusalem, that is not a Palestinian condition,” he said. “That is rather an Israeli obligation, and the same thing is applicable to our demand to have negotiations resume where we left them in December 2008.”
Erekat said Mitchell appealed to Abbas to resume negotiations immediately, but the Palestinians disagreed and asked Washington “to have the Netanyahu government drop its conditions.”
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