Netanyahu: No one to talk to on Palestinian side

[Scurrilous]

Amid Palestinian threats to declare statehood unilaterally, PM says leadership in West Bank 'running away from negotiations.' Likud MK: The most they'll get is a monopoly state. Visiting senators say US will veto Palestinian declaration of statehood at Security Council

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3806137,00.html

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"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Palestinian leadership once again on Monday, claiming it was not interested in resuming peace negotiations.

"The Palestinians are running away from negotiations. There is no one to talk to," the PM told a Likud faction meeting amid Palestinian threats to ask the UN to recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israel's consent.

Earlier Monday, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinian Authority has asked the European Union to back such a move."

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"Meanwhile, American senators visiting Israel said on Monday that the United States would veto a Palestinian declaration of statehood in the United Nations Security Council.

They said the threat by Palestinian officials to take the issue to a United Nations resolution was a waste of time and would go nowhere. They urged Arab states to stop it. "It would be D.O.A. - dead on arrival," Democratic Party Senator Ted Kaufman (DE) told a news conference in Jerusalem. "It's a waste of time."

Senator Joseph Lieberman (CT), an independent, said "an essentially unilateral" declaration of statehood was the one thing that would not move the stalled peace process forward.

"I hope and presume that the United States would veto such a move if it ever came to the Security Council," Lieberman said. The only way to end the Middle East conflict was an agreement reached through bilateral negotiations, he added."

[Recursion]

1. Because you blew them all up, Bibi NT

[sabbat hunter]

3. What leaders exactly did Bibi blow up

The ones in Gaza refuse to even recognize Israel. The ones in the WB are willing to negotiate. Too bad Bibi really isn't.

Bibi should take a cue from Begin, be the leader that has the guts to actually negotiate a peace, one that is lasting.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

4. You can't be serious. Israel has done everything possible to undercut any Palestinian leader...

starting with funding Hamas in the 1980s to create opposition to the PLO!

[sabbat hunter]

5. the comment was

"because you blew them all up Bibi"

I replied who did BIBI blow up? Granted he isn't doing much to reach out to the leadership on the WB, but Hamas over in Gaza is nothing but a bunch of terror thugs who refuse to even recognize Israel, nevermind negotiate with them.

So tell me PM, who did Bibi blow up?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Since the traitor rat Joe Lieberman had to stick his nose into this business

I'll say let the Palestinians proclaim their statehood, or proclaim themselves as citizens of a very large Israel.

As to Bibi, there are no partners for peace on either side of this idiotic I/P conflict. One cannot be for peace while allowing the evil settlements to exist. Once cannot be for peace while allowing terrorism to take place.