Abu Bluff's 'senior moment'
You might have thought that Abu Bluff had given up on insisting that Israel agree to a full 'settlement freeze' as a precondition to conducting negotiations. You would be wrong. Abu Bluff has been hearing voices again. And he has turned back the clock. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, speaking Sunday as if he had never met with American and Israeli leaders in the White House last week, conditioned more direct talks with Israel on an extension of the building freeze.Maybe Abu Bluff had a 'senior moment' and forgot he was in Washington last week. Heh.
His statement turned back the clock to pre-White House rhetoric that had precluded face-to-face discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu until last week. Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu, after individual meetings with U.S. President Barack Obama in a day of carefully choreographed discussions last Thursday, spoke with each other for over two hours behind closed doors and gave President Obama the opportunity to say he brought them together.
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said they even agreed to meet next week for a fresh round of talks, but Abbas said on a visit to Libya Saturday night, “If the freeze period is not extended by the end of the month, there will be no negotiations."
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Abbas' statement appeared to pour cold water on Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s declaration on Army Radio Sunday morning that "a way was being sought so that [ending the building freeze]) would not harm the continuation of talks."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:33 PM
2 Comments:
The Palestinians have no serious intentions of talking directly to Israel. Freeze or no freeze, Abu Bluff will no doubt come up with creative excuses not to talk to Israel.
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Norman
While Netanyahu spoke of the desire for peace and the willingness to reach a conclusion, of course Abass only spoke of what Israel has to do to ensure peace as if there is no responsibility on the Palestinian side. It is farce pure and simple. Annoying in its simplicity and stupidity.
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