Abbas has stopped even giving his unbending demands. He's just left the field and has decided to declare a state in September. A state not on any current border but on the original 1948 borders. As if nothing has happened since then and everything that exists in Israel will magically disappear. He's said he's willing to negotiate from that position and that position only. On the other hand, his partners in Hamas have stated quite clearly that there will be no negotiations and they will keep Fatah to that pledge.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A negotiated peace does not consist of one side saying "bend over" and > the other saying "how far". > > Seems to me that any conversation that has ever occurred has hard > demands on both sides which the other party refuses to even consider. > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In other words, it seems like it would be a lot harder to find > > Palestinians that want negotiated peace than Israelis that want > > negotiated peace. > > > > What am I missing? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338002 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
