Israel Matzav

Abu Bluff pronounces 'peace process' 'clinically dead'

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has once again pronounced the 'peace process' 'clinically dead.' And of course, he is blaming Israel for killing it.

The peace process is clinically dead and Israel bears full responsibility, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Sunday.

"The ball is in the Israeli court," Abbas said in a speech at a conference on Jerusalem that was held in Ramallah.

The Palestinians, he added, have fulfilled all their obligations in line with international agreements.

Abbas also accused Israel of working to destroy the two-state solution through its settlement policy.

"We have emphasized that we are in favor of the two-state solution and reaching a settlement through negotiations," he said. "The negotiations should lead to recognition of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the 1967 borders."

Abbas's comments came as Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat was preparing to leave for Washington for talks with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on ways of reviving the stalled peace talks with Israel.

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Abu Rudaineh said that the PA leadership would also wait to see if the US would present new ideas to revive the peace process during Erekat's visit to Washington this week.

"We want real American pressure that would force Israel to halt settlement construction," the spokesman said. "But if Israel doesn't present anything, we will ultimately go to the UN."

Just curious... where does it say in any of the 'Oslo accords that there is to be a 'Palestinian state' at all, let alone one on the '67 lines? Inconvenient fact.... It doesn't say so anywhere....

Labels: Abu Mazen, Binyamin Netanyahu, negotiations without preconditions, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, two-state solution

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:27 AM