This Ongoing War..
04 September '13..
None of us has to be a diplomat or a psychologist to make sense of the stream of comments emerging from the closed doors behind which a process called peace talks is taking place between teams of Israeli and Palestinian Arab negotiators.
A Reuters syndicated news report from an hour ago is a classic of what has been emerging:
Peace talks with Israel going nowhere: senior Palestinian Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are proving pointless and will not bear fruit without much greater pressure from Washington, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday. In the most damning Palestinian assessment to date, Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the negotiations, which kicked off in late July after a three year hiatus, had made no progress. "These negotiations are futile and won't lead to any results," Abed Rabbo told Voice of Palestine radio. "I don't expect any progress at all unless there is huge and powerful American pressure, such as the one we are seeing from America to deal with the Syrian issue," added Abed Rabbo, one of just two officials authorized by Abbas to discuss the talks.
The same Reuters report gives a little airplay to the Israeli side.
An Israeli official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office declined to comment on the remarks, saying the two sides had agreed that only the United States should speak about the talks. "We are abiding by that agreement," the official said... In a message marking the Jewish New Year, Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he wanted "real and enduring peace ... not an agreement that we celebrate for two minutes and then collapses". [Reuters]
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