Palestinian peace talks delegation resigns: Abbas

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded by Israeli settlement building.

The development would mark a new low point for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from both sides have said have made little headway.

In an interview with Egyptian CBC television, Abbas suggested the negotiations would continue even if the Palestinian peace delegation stuck to its decision.

"Either we can convince it to return, and we're trying with them, or we form a new delegation," he said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/13/us-palestinians-israel-idUSBRE9AC0JE20131113

[kelliekat44]

1. Israel Likud was counting on this. nt

[azurnoir]

2. thanks that explains why the Western press is shreiking "natanyahu halts settlements" but when

one reads the article it says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Tuesday a reassessment of plans to build nearly 24,000 settler homes, saying he feared an international outcry that would divert attention from Israel's lobbying against a nuclear deal with Iran.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-israel-palestinians-settlements-idUSBRE9AB17O20131112

That's not quite a halt, that's more like think about it

now though if the walkout does end the talks the Israeli's can say "we have no partner for peace, so let's build baby build"

[DallasNE]

3. That's Like Having Your Cake And Eating It Too

First you sabotage the talks by announcing plans for more settlements and then when the sabotage works you claim you have no partner to work with. One problem; it is so transparent that nobody will buy it, not even Abbas.

[Archae]

4. As long as Hamas exists, there are no "peace talks."

Hamas still is calling for Israel to be destroyed, completely.

[cpwm17]

5. Israel is destroying Palestine

which was there first. Peace talks don't mean shit.