Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed that the negotiating team for peace talks with Israel has resigned, and will not participate in any new talks. The team reportedly resigned over repeated Israeli announcements of settlement expansions into territory that was supposed to be part of a future Palestinian state.
Abbas said this wasn’t the end of the talks, adding that they would try to convince the team to return or form a new delegation. Either may take some time.
US officials downplayed the news, noting previous reports of Saeb Erekat’s resignation proved not to be true. This time there doesn’t seem to be any real doubt, however.
The timing suggests that Israeli’s announcement and retraction of a plan for 24,000 new settlement units, the single largest such announcement in a decade, convinced the negotiators that there’s simply no real hope for progress in the talks.
"convinced the negotiators that there’s simply no real hope for progress in the talks."
I'm sure they have known that for a long time. They were looking for an incident that could make that obvious to the rest of the world.
I don't think they did. I wish they had, but Israel pulled back just enough to duck this bullet. Too bad, because the Israelis are not acting in good faith.
The Zionist want all the lands from the Palestinians and their enabler supplies the money and military equiptment to murder anyone who resist and are following what the yanks did to the native americans.
Stop wasting time with the Peace Process charade. All it does is give Israel time to stall and to establish more of its beloved 'facts on the ground' in its Lebensraum (= "living space") . Complete the process tentatively started with the UN
Abbas should hand in his resignation too…..He is such a wimp.
Abbas is making 10s of millions. The US and Israel can't stuff enough money into his swiss bank accounts. Having someone sell out their people doesn't come cheap.
If the international community (excluding the USrael, UK, France, Canada, AUS) started helping the Palestinians with money, building material, children's clothes, etc – ceaselessly, what could the above mentioned lackeys do about it without being ostracized and isolated?
It's Israel's fault the Palestinians are so dependent on foreign aid when the country occupying you is strangling the Pal economy…plus Israel also is dependent largely on foreign aid with no intent to give it up, whether they need it or not. So lead by example.