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    Palestinians: low-level talks with Israel are over

    RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president says exploratory talks with Israel on resuming full-fledged peace negotiations have run their course.

    Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he'll consult with the Arab League next week on whether to extend them. He spoke in Jordan after meeting King Abdullah II.

    The Palestinians face mounting international pressure not to walk away. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is talking to Abbas and Israel's prime minister about this in the next two days.

    Through Jordanian mediation, the sides began a low-level dialogue this month, hoping it would evolve into negotiations. The Palestinians believe a deadline set by international mediators for submitting border proposals expires Thursday. Israel says meetings should continue.

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Visiting EU foreign policy chief has urged Israelis and Palestinians to continue their efforts to resume peace negotiations, even as the Palestinians say the dialogue has run its course.

    Catherine Ashton says that "we need to keep talks going and increase the potential of these talks to become genuine negotiations." She is to meet with leaders from both sides on Wednesday.

    Through Jordanian mediation, the sides began a low-level dialogue this month hoping to pave the way for full-fledged peace talks.

    The Palestinians believe a deadline set by international mediators for submitting border proposals expires Thursday. Israel says meetings should continue.

     

    42 comments

    • Ēqualizer  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      How are they suppose to negotiate a peace agreement when the Palestinians refuse to agree to peace...even when they are offered or given everything they've asked for? (Aside from the complete destruction of Israel, that is)

      For example, Israel pulled out of Gaza and Hamas upheld their end of the "peace agreement" by increasing their rocket and terrorist attacks.

      Arafat turned down a peace agreement that would have given the Palestinians 94% - 97% of the West Bank as sovereign soil and custodial jurisdiction over E.Jerusalem...without even telling anyone what the Palestinians would have been willing to accept.

      The only thing the Palestinians will accept is the complete and utter destruction of Israel. This much is blatantly obvious. So how is Israel suppose to negotiate with that?
    • tarastwo  •  San Francisco, California  •  4 mths ago
      talks are over?
      ok, lets build more settlements!
      see yah
    • Berny Maddoff  •  Wayne, New Jersey  •  4 mths ago
      by hooks or crooks JEWS RULE.
    • abir  •  4 mths ago
      the on and off again relationship of Palestine and Israel is so much like ross and rachel, will they get back together or won't they. would they settle their dispute or won't they. while the whole world waits eagerly for a result. for crying out loud the cold war didn't last so long!
    • tarastwo  •  San Francisco, California  •  4 mths ago
      NAZIS SQUEAL LIKE LITTLE GIRLS
      They spend their days writing lies about jews, making up stories, quotes and facts, but in the end they are wasting their life away. these posts are dust in the wind, tomorrow never remembers, the only thing that counts is the vote total and even though they cheat like a maniac all day, frantically changing names, israel and jews still always win. thats the mark of a true idiot, doing the same thing over and over when the result is always the same! ISRAEL IS FOREVER NAZI BOY!
    • Midwest  •  Arlington, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      The only reason the fake "palestinians" attended the talks is because they love their charity money. They have NOT renounced VIOLENCE. They have NOT stopped the ROCKET FIRE. They do NOT want peace. The Gaza strip must be retaken.
    • Doctor Hakeem  •  Dearborn, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      "The sides began a low-level dialogue this month, hoping it would evolve into negotiations." But the low-level dialogue devolved into a mere- chit-chat, followed by a round of tweets, followed by the Palestinians threatening to turn off their cell phones.
    • Dan  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      What of the "Occupied Territories"? The Jews call them Judea and Samaria. The Arabs call them ad-difa’a al-gharbiya or the West Bank. Nothing says ancient history like bluntly descriptive names.

      But what of Ramallah, capital of the Palestinian Authority, that at least is an Arabic name.

      And that's true.

      It is an "CHRISTIAN" Arabic name. A name almost as ancient as the city which dates back to the 16th century when a group of Christian Arabs crossed over from what is today Jordan fleeing Muslim persecution. Under Jordanian rule, Ramallah was overrun by Muslims and today it has a Muslim majority.

      When the capital of your ancient people was founded by Christians from the other side of the river in the 16th century, and it wasn't actually your capital until the bygone days of the 1990's, and it only became your capital because you drove off its residents in the 1950's, then your ancient civilization has a problem. It doesn't actually exist. It's just more Islamic History Revision.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        when god was invented, just so your tribe can have beachfront property, it trumps your whole "pals don't exist" story here.

        SPECIALLY, WHEN THE FACT IS, THAT GAZA WAS A CITY LONG BEFORE JERUSALEM.

        AND JERUSALEM, WAS KNOWN AS JEBUS, BEFORE THE ISRAELITES WERE EVER INVENTED.

        My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. (Exodus 23:23

        PROPAGANDA FAIL. TRY AGAIN. SO YOU SEE. YOUR ANCIENT CIVILIZATION INVENTED GOD, KILLED PEOPLE THAT ALREADY LIVED THERE, AND NOW WANTS TO REMOVE ALL REMNANTS OF THOSE PEOPLE.

        THANK YOU FOR PROVING YOU DONT WANT PEACE. YOU WANT LAND. JUST LIKE 5000 YEARS AGO W HEN SATAN TOLD YOU TO RAPE FOR IT.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        yes yes, the palestinians were invented poeple. foret those millions of arabs. move them out and take their land. cuz god said jew sonly. yep

        WERE THESE NON JEWISH VIRGINS RAPED FOR THEIR LAND AS STATED BY YAWYEH, IN NUMBERS 31 17-18

        WERE THEY INVENTED AS WELL? DO THEY ALSO NOT EXIST?
        numbers 31 17-18
        Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.

        SILLY GENOCIDAL ZIONIST.
      • Rock 4 mths ago
        God made a covenant WITH the Jewish people/Israel, He gave the land to them ..... the end
    • PAUL  •  Bismarck, North Dakota  •  4 mths ago
      It's high time for an eviction notice to all those who oppose the state on Israel in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights. The problem is nobody wants them, as years of brainwashing has radicalized these Islamists to such a degree, not even the Muslim Brotherhood types want to live along side them.

      It's too bad for Jordan's minority Hashemites, but they are the ones who will have to pay the sacrifice and absorb these fellow Arabs who vastly outnumber them in Trans Jordan. Trans Jordan was meant for the Palestinian Arabs in the first place in 1948, while Israel was meant for the Palestinian Jews. The Ibn Sauds were given too much land in the Ottoman breakup. The northern section of Saudi Arabia should have gone to the Hashemites.

      Explain why the land captured in an existential, just war should be turned over to anyone. If tiny Israel is to survive as a nation, it must keep this land for the sake of enforceable borders.

      Also, to maintain a Jewish majority, since it is the world's only Jewish nation, these Arab Palestinians must leave to their 1948 UN established homeland in Trans Jordan. After all, they lost 4 wars which clearly has determined this outcome.
      • Myrtle 4 mths ago
        So using your logic we here in the U.S. should have kept Germany and Japan?
        And then since there isn't a world's only Christian state we should declare the U.S. as a Christian state? And then for those who have lived here forever and don't want to convert evict them?
    • Dan  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      How is anyone supposed to take this "Islamic History Revision" nonsense seriously?

      The Arab name for Jerusalem is Al-Quds or the holy city. It's a little like calling New York, Big City and pretending that it means you saw it first, when it actually means that you saw it last and are piggybacking on its existing identity.

      The Arabic for Hebron is a translation of the Hebrew. The same goes for Bethlehem. Ah but what about Nablus? The Jews may call it Shechem, but the Arabs have a unique name for it. Surely Nablus is part of the great and ancient Palestinian heritage. Not a chance. Nablus isn't Arabic, it's the Arabic mispronunciation of Neapolis, which if you happen to know Latin means "New City".

      Nablus has the same relationship to Neapolis, as Filistin does to Palestine, it's the Arabic mispronunciation of the Latin. The name "Nablus" is every bit as regionally authentic as Naples, in Italy or Florida, which has the same meaning.

      It's just modern day Islamic History Revision. Or Jihad.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        the guy who thinks arabs dont exist, and should be cleared out. the guy who ignores VIRGIN RAPE FOR LAND in his bible, and says things like "islamic history revision"

        HERE IS A FACT FOR YOU. GAZA HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT 10,000 YEARS, BEFORE ABRAHAM

        THE GIRLS RAPED BY YOUR CHOEN ISRAELITES FOR THEIR LAND, IN JUDGES 21, WERE ALSO AROUND, BEFORE YOUR ABRaham

        Judges 21:10-24
        They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        You took their land 5000 years ago, and now you want to do it again to their descendants.

        your posts prove nothing more than the fact you want all arabs out of your land, because you think a magical man in the sky says only jews are supposed to be there.

        you are right wing filth, and like kkk supporters, slave owners, segregationists, you are just another right winger on the wrong side of history

        soon, the ethnic cleansers like you will pay for your crimes against humanity

        freedom is the only thing worth fighting for, and the pals will be fere from your genocide, and there is nothing you can do about it.

        run along satan worshipper
      • Rock 4 mths ago
        @ Chris ... here is a FACT for you as well ... GOD made a covenant WITH Israel/the Jewish people ... that is a FACT .... IF you disagree, take that FACT up with God!!
    • Dan  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      Palestinian identity is just so much gibberish.

      The people who live on the parts of the Palestine Mandate that were turned into the Kingdom of Jordan in 1921 are not Palestinians.

      There is no call to incorporate them into a Palestinian state. The people who lived in the parts of Israel that were captured by Jordan and Egypt in 1948 weren't Palestinians, and there was no call to turn the land that today comprises the so-called "Occupied Territories" into a state. But in 1967 when Israel liberated those areas-- only then did they magically turn into Palestinians.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        WERE THEY INVENTED AS WELL? DO THEY ALSO NOT EXIST?
        numbers 31 17-18
        Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.

        SILLY GENOCIDAL ZIONIST.
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  4 mths ago
      America should know..israel plants a vast army of internet "warriors" pretending to be Americans...even fake "Muslim radicals" on these threads. Fear, hate and war mongering is israel's specialty...Google JIDF (50,000 Facebook members)..GIYUS and "jewish task force"
      • Abram 4 mths ago
        Don't be an Israel basher - so I won't have to kick your a.s.s. :)
      • REALITY CHECK 4 mths ago
        voted for cantor huh?
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  4 mths ago
      NETANYAHU - "Talking is a good thing...You can't have talks if you're not talking. I could talk All day. Small talk..Coffee talk! I can listen to people talk for years. In fact I could listen to people talk for 60 years! Besides..If you're talking that might even lead to more talks. And we all know that talking might have an effect on future talks that we have been talking about. And I should point out that talk is not cheap. At least not for the Palestinians.(Hehe)"
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  4 mths ago
      So while I'm talking to you...don't interrupt me..I'm talking. The talks I am talking about will most likely lead to the stabilization of the talks and ISRAELS security in the Middle East talks. No talking points..No point in talking for the sake of talking. Just a real old fashioned heart to heart talk talk. I talk..You talk..I talk. Talk the talk..Walk The talk. .....ROPE A talk! Err...No. If the Palestinians don't want to talk, Then I am finished talking and there is nothing more to talk about. They're all talk anyway (Hehe)
    • Banana Kiwi  •  4 mths ago
      Once again the Palestinians fail to realize that they don't have the upper hand and that they LOST the war. if they want to have a state they need negotiate for it, praising murderers and shooting rockets is not "negotiating".
    • Jaguar4  •  4 mths ago
      Talking to the Israelis have always been a waste of time. Abbas should back-out and let Hamas and Hezbollah deal with the Israelis. That's what Israel understands.
    • all american girl  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      Stinken arab palestine don't want peace talks! Got dam arab animals just want to committee crimes!
    • Get Back  •  4 mths ago
      Talk while Israel arrest Palestine leaders. ya right
    • sam c  •  Sandy Hook, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      If the Muslims defeat Israel and the Jews they will soon turn there agressive nature to the Western Christian Lands the only thing stopping them now is the Jews and Israel. An enemy to my enemy is my friend.
    • sam o  •  Corvallis, Oregon  •  4 mths ago
      These are the undeniable facts: a) Criminal Israel was founded about 50 years ago by ethnically cleansing Muslim and Christian natives and stealing their lands. b) Criminal Israel only survives by annually getting billion$ in American aid (stolen from our children), and by US Government stopping any legal action in United Nations (about 60 vetoes, nothing like it in history of UN). c) Criminal Israelis may talk about "concessions", but they never really gave up anything of theirs. Even Gaza is totally surrounded, it's really the biggest ghetto in the world. What ever they gave, they had stolen, and is designed to jail the natives. d) Criminal Israelis want to control media, commerce and energy/natural sources. Basically, they want to be the land lord of us. You work, they get rich. It's that simple, and perfectly fits the notion they are "chosen". Shalom!
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