[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday ruled out resuming peace talks with Israel unless it stops building of settlements in the occupied territories and insisted on the Palestinians right to "legitimate resistance."
Abbas made the comments during the inaugural meeting of the new 23-member Central Committee that his Fatah party elected during its first convention in two decades.
He said negotiations with Israel would only resume "on the basis of commitments made by both sides ... particularly a halt to all forms of settlement activity without exception in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied territories."
Brilliant, just brilliant.
The Israelis are building on what you consider to be your land. If you don't talk to them and get a deal they'll just continue to build. Eventually they'll have their settlements around Jerusalem (which the Israelis say is theirs forever) completely set and you won't be move to negotiate for anything.
But instead of talking, you'll do .. something else. Except that all the stuff you've been doing these last sixty years hasn't worked, and you're out of new ideas.
Brilliant, Mahmoud, brilliant. |
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