ABBAS ISOLATED IN MID EAST TALKS:
Who BENEFITS FROM ISRAELI OCCUPATION?
by TRNN
US President Barak Obama succeeded in pressuring both the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas into direct talks. This week the leaders, as well as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II met in Washington.
Buttu: Mahmoud Abbas has little support from the Palestinian public for the negotiations
However their agreement to enter direct talks was not popular on the ground neither in Israel nor in the occupied Palestinian territories. All Palestinian parties, except for the ruling Fatah, rejected negotiations with Israel. Even president Abbas originally refused to enter negotiations because his basic condition, a total freeze on Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, has not been met. Many in the Palestinian territories also raised concerns about him not being a legitimate representative of the Palestinian side because his term as president expired twice and he is therefore not technically supposed to be in office. However concerns were raised on all sides because of a lack of leadership and strategy entering these talks. Meanwhile, tensions and violence are escalating in the region.
Bio
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson with the Palestine Liberation Organization. She appears frequently on international media including Al Jazeera, CNN, and Fox News.
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neoconbuster 2010-09-04
AIPAC March 23, 2010 "Jerusalem is not a settlement.. it is our capital." These defiant words came from Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, as he addressed a conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington DC on Monday. His remarks came hours after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, called on Israel to halt all settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territory. What kind of peace talk you can get from a Warmonger who pulled the finger and laughted in OSLO?
Lavina 2010-09-04
Obama is a fraud, like our previous presidents, except for Carter. The Palestinians had better get together and stop following the US orders. The US administration is for Israel. The Palestinians should unite and urge the world to join the boycott. Abbas should be the one to do this and go into exile before hand; since he would be arrested if he does this in Palestine.
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