The Israel-Palestinian peace talks appear to be dead today after the Israeli government reneged on its last round of Palestinian prisoner releases, which were due to be done on Saturday.
At the start of the talks, Israel agreed to release 104 prisoners held since before 1993,but then broke the releases up into four “batches.” 78 were freed, but Israel made no effort to follow through on the final batch.
Palestinian officials called the move a slap in the face not only to the peace process, but to the US government’s efforts to mediate a continuation of the talks, which according to some reports Israel was trying to parlay into getting spy Jonathan Pollard freed.
Israeli Deputy DM Danny Danon, who has led opposition to the prisoner releases, defended the move, saying the talks weren’t going anywhere anyhow, and that the Palestinians just wanted the “terrorists” released.
Jonathan Pollard should not be released. Israel should release the Palestinian prisoners since they cause them to become terrorists. They commit ethnic cleansing with US, Canadian and European taxes.
Redwood you are right on the money how do America reverse the Zionist foreign policy that cause all this upheaval.
Okay Danon. We wash our hands of two state ideas. Civil Rights for all. Choke on it you racist freak.
Israel's leaders don't want peace. Bigger profits and greater power can be had by keeping Israel at war of one kind or another with everyone, including "special allies." Israel needs to be cut loose from USG apron strings, and kept out of US taxpayers pockets, to sink or swim on its own. Pollard should rot in jail, or be put down as the profiteering traitor he is to end further discussion of his release. Peace talks with Israel, which keeps building new settlements on Palestinian land, unilaterally changing demands, and reneging on concessions made, are a waste of everyone's time. Palestinians' hopes lie in taking their case to the ICC over the strenuous objections of US/Israel, and the bleating of Cameron, Merkel, and Hollande. As one of its first orders of business, the UN created this mess. UN nations including the US have an obligation to solve it. If the UN can't or won't do that, it's as doomed as the League of Nations.
Of course they don't want peace, the parasites have to maintain that phobia in order to keep that three billion plus annually of the US tax payer's money from drying up.
I could not put it better you have touched on the cause and effect.
I think it's pretty clear they do want peace- just not a peace that is acceptable to anyone else. And they are well on the way to getting it, with A. Lieberman inquiring innocently of his legal staff what would be required to strip Israelis who are not Jewish of their citizenship. "Transfer" is the plan. A single-state solution, in fact. I predict that the next statement we hear from the Israelis is the claim that since the Palestinians will not negotiate, they should be simply sent "back" to Jordan and Egypt.
It's not "ethnic cleansing". It's "Reverse Immigration."
Israel does NOT want 'peace' – they just want to steal all of the land.
Now Abbas will be forced to take Israel to the ICJ or he will confirm to the Palestinians the quisling he really is and he will be toast.