The revision of the narrative on how the Israel-Palestinian peace talks died has taken another dramatic shift today, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring the talks dead because of today’s unity deal between Fatah and Hamas, and that Abbas “chose Hamas over peace.”
Of course the talks were effectively dead nearly a month ago, when Israel reneged on a prisoner release. No real talks have happened since. At the time, Israeli officials claimed Secretary of State John Kerry wholly to blame for the talks’ collapse.
Now, with the deadline for the talks to end just a week away, and no one seriously expecting anything to come between now and then, the unity deal is retroactively being portrayed as the deal-breaker.
Netanyahu and others insisted throughout the day that Fatah could not have unity with other Palestinian factions and a peace deal with Israel, and would have to choose. The reality is that a peace deal with Israel was already essentially off the table, and with so many Israeli officials long claiming the lack of Palestinian unity as an obstacle to making a deal with them, it isn’t clear how this would seriously harm a new round of peace talks, if one is ever proposed.
US and Netanyahu is just pi**ed Abbas has finally woken up to the fact the Palestinians are being conned into endless talks with Israel while Israel continues unabated illegal squatter settlement construction on Palestinian land.
Abbas would have been given a time frame to complete this latest round of talks, negotiation deadline which would have long since passed and it was always a given that a Peace deal with Hamas would eventuate after over 60 years of failed Fatah negotiations with Israel.
Isen't it ridiculous that Bibi can talk about peace whilst continuing to kill Palestinians every day.
The word “peace” has a value, whatever is coming out of this man mouth has non.
He had two speeches prepared. This is the one for the scenario where the Palestinians did unity, and we now know says that there cannot be peace because Abbas chose Hamas over peace.
The other speech was for the scenario where the Palestinians did not unify, and it said that there could be no peace because the Palestinians were divided.
On his word processor, he has a template for many more speeches about why there can be no peace, with the reason left blank to be filled in as needed.
Interesting just what kind of prescience they might eventually claim to grease this weird new(?) retroactive-blame game. Will they say 'we knew you'd been talking?' That some party is or may be talking to someone other than them sometimes seems like it's especially "offensive" to them. E.g., not too long ago, you weren't supposed to be talking to Iran. And how 'bout that time when Putin, Obama, and Assad apparently conspired to deprive USrael of the main tenet of its perennial bloodlust, even as the Jewish Lobby came out of the closet after weeks of semi-covert pro-war pressure, then Ukraine got a coup and Putin became the new New Hitler? I take it those three weren't supposed to be on speaking terms; especially if talking about them. So now two Palestinian entities have been talking lately, and that's so unforgivable that it's also to-blame-for something Israel did earlier. Anyway, rational or not, even ingenuous or not, there's a real pattern to point-to regarding this kind of –might one call it?– jealousy. They really might claim that one opponent communicating with another justified just about any of their usual impulses.
Deducing that they think they have an audience that cares inordinately about who is friendly with who. That some party is or may be talking to someone other than them sometimes seems like it's especially "offensive" to them. E.g., not too long ago, you weren't supposed to be talking to Iran. And how 'bout that time when Putin, Obama, and Assad apparently conspired to deprive USrael of the main tenet of its perennial bloodlust, even as the Jewish Lobby came out of the closet after weeks of semi-covert pro-war pressure, then Ukraine got a coup and Putin became the new New Hitler? I take it those three weren't supposed to be on speaking terms; especially now Putin and Obama. So now two Palestinian entities have been talking lately, and that's so unforgivable that it's also to-blame-for something Israel did earlier. Anyway, rational or not, even ingenuous or not, there seems to be a pattern to point-to regarding this kind of –might one call it?– jealousy. In this case it's three-birds-one-stone: suckers don't see a move Israel made as already nixing talks, and they get to stigmatize a relationship between two of their opponents.
What peace deal, there has NEVER been any peace deal except Netenyahu arranging more and more land to be stolen!
I suppose we could see the return of all land taken WITH the new housing built on it!
Just remember this, when Jewish art treasures stolen in WWII turn up the return to the family is demanded, and complied with! No difference with stolen land!
Tel Aviv (AP) –
"The State Of Israel, discoverer of an apartment in Tel Aviv full of thousands of square miles of land plundered from Palestinians by Israel’s father, will return the land in the trove that was apparently kept secret for decades to their original Palestinian owners or those owners’ descendants, starting with a well-known town, Israel’s lawyers said on Wednesday.
The news that Israel’s father had hoarded hundreds of farms, villages, towns, and cities collected at the time of the 1967 war set off international outrage when their existence was made public in November. Jewish groups mindful of the parallels with art stolen by the Nazis immediately insisted on the return of all of the looted land and property.
More trips to the apartment turned up land totaling almost 22% of the land area of pre-mandate Palestine, and included some of the biggest names in the area.
“We had no idea that Dad had collected all this,” said the State Of Israel. “And all of it is stolen. It’s very embarrassing. Of course it all has to go back.”
The next step will be to examine the provenance of the objects in the collection, and any found to have been looted will be returned to their rightful owners, police said."
Peaceful negotiations is out of the question, armed struggle is the only options. Israel cannot negotiate in good faith without a war being fought, if Hezbollah did not stand up and fight, Israel would still be occupying Lebanon.
The only way out of course the yanks will be solidly behind the zionis but then there is Hisbooah.
The last thing that the Israeli Jews want is unity amongst the Palestinians. Their main tool is to cause as much division as possible and with the help of the US they're doing it on a world wide scale too. This is not only a domestic thing, but also global in scope.
True! Tue! the Palestinians know full well the yanks are in it with the Zionist to steal more land was never a true broker now they are making a pappyshow of themselves for the world to see.
I wonder if the Palestinians have made a deal with Russia. I think it would be hoot if they declare the state of Palestinians and the Russians put a military base in Gaza. I can see another USS Liberty with the Russians lack of sense of humor. Bibi is an idiot and am sure he will do what he does best which is make a problem a disaster.