Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev today demanded that the Palestinian government abandon its efforts at international recognition as an independent state and instead return to direct peace talks.
The talks have been stalled since September, when the Israeli government ended its settlement freeze and began expanding settlements further into the territory of what was supposed to be a Palestinian state. The Palestinians have insisted the talks are impossible without a freeze, because the territory they are negotiating over is just getting progressively smaller.
But Regev and others mocked the Palestinian effort to secure international recognition of their independence as a “mirage” and insisted that only direct negotiations could ever secure peace.
Palestinian negotiator Erekat insisted that the peace talks with Israel are clearly at a “dead-end” and that instead of trying effort after effort to kick-start the failing direct talks they were moving ahead with efforts to secure recognition from the Quartet.
Israel doesn't want peace at all, it wants all of Gaza and the West Bank and it's increasingly clear they will resort to anything to get them. They torpedoed the previous talks with their refusal to stop settlement contruction, so Palestine is doing the only realistic thing it can do- declare indendence with or without Israeli cooperation. Now it's incumbent on the rest of the world to either side with Israel or side with Palestine- and time for Americans to think about what today would be like if the Colonies had been treated by Britain the way Israel is treating the Palestinians now, with endless talks, talks, talks while every hour more and more of the disputed land gets gobbled up by the 'settlers'. I think the Colonies were right to declare independence and back it up with blood and iron- and it's time for Palestine to do the same. What will America do when faced with its own history?
In 1918 WWI came to a close. An entire British army held in what became Iraq was freed after one of many defeats the british suffered in the middle east. As a matter of fact the british never won one battle in the middle east and if it was not for the arabs they would have been expelled. The arabs who supported the british were rewarded with the great betrayal by the few very powerful political types of england who gave the zionist the ability to flood the area with illegal settlers and protect those settlers with the british army. The Turks allowed a few zionist to move and start a new life between 1880 and 1918. These zionist all took a loyalty oath and promised to be honorable citizens of the Ottoman empire. The zionist were given a new life away from the attacks they suffered in europe. They arrived with the intention of destroy those that give them a new start. During WWII the zionist for the most part avoided the fight against the nazi and most that actually entered the military served in phony groups that trainned for phony operations. They actually were training for the war that they intended to start after the war. The zionist used WWII as a method to steal and acquire massive war supplies to be used in the war they intended to start. In 1948 they started the long planned war instead of giving peace a chance. Since 1948 they have been totally against any peace since their real goal is expansion. They do not want peace. Israel desires war on their terms which too often is to attack neighbors to steal land and resources.
but but but thares no-ONE to talk to,wahh
There have been Arab Governments to talk with even before the UN declaration of two separate states — one state for the Palestinians and one state for the Jews. The Jews were prepared to start a war in 1948 — mainly with "smuggled" armaments from the United States through American Zionists. There has consistently been Arabs seeking peace. Israel only seeks expansion as has been declared by all leaders of Israel. Netanyahu has declared that Israel will never accept control of the West Bank to the Palestinians because Israel needs the water from the aquifers in the West Bank and needs the land for forthcoming generations of Israelis.