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Abbas: Israel, PA have failed to reach joint statement
By Aluf Benn, Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, and News Agencies
Tags: Saeb Erekat, Amr Moussa 

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have failed to agree on a joint statement to be presented at next week's U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Friday.

Click here for the joint document currently being drafted by Israel and the Palestinians

At a briefing to the foreign ministers on the progress of talks between Israel and the PA, Abbas said the negotiations were genuine, but both sides stuck to their positions, and Israel brought about the talks failure.
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The negotiating teams are not expected to meet again before a Monday session in the United States, one day before the summit. Should the teams fail in that final effort to formulate a statement, the summit will conclude with a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza, and not a joint Israel-PA statement.

On Thursday, Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh said that the Annapolis conference is stillborn and will achieve nothing for the Palestinians.

"We realize that this conference was stillborn and is not going to achieve for the Palestinian people any of its goals or any of the political and legal rights due to them," Haniyeh said outside the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza City.

Haniyeh said Abbas did not have the mandate to make compromises in talks with Israel, especially over the demand of Palestinian refugees to return with their families to homes in Israel they lost during the 1948 War of Independence.

"No one is authorized to compromise or to give up any of these rights, especially the right of return," Haniyeh said.

Haniyeh also called on Abbas not to cave in to a recent Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. "We do not recognize that this state is Jewish," Haniyeh said.


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      1.   Normalization-free or at a price 12:34  |  Moshe 23/11/07
      2.   ARAB WAR MONGERS 12:45  |  Iskander 23/11/07
      3.   Israel says Arab League won`t get `normalization for free` 13:20  |  Avi 23/11/07
      4.   Iskander 13:38  |  Imad 23/11/07
      5.   #4 & #2 14:26  |  peter 23/11/07
      6.   Arabs won`t get peace for free 14:28  |  Joe Sittizen 23/11/07
      7.   We wan`t peace or want peace 14:55  |  jack tanous 23/11/07
      8.   THE LAND FOR PEACE IDEA IS ANYTHING BUT PEACE!!! 15:05  |  Tom 23/11/07
      9.   Iskander, pot, meet mr kettle 15:22  |  Salahudin the Great 23/11/07
      10.   Wahhabhist summit 15:40  |  Brod 23/11/07
      11.   Saudis will attend Annapolis? 15:46  |  Natallie Durson 23/11/07
      12.   SAUDIS SCREW THE PALESTINAINS 15:48  |  Bob 23/11/07
      13.   ARAB MANNERS 16:00  |  Brant 23/11/07
      14.   Arab Peace initiative 16:07  |  Abu Yusuf 23/11/07
      15.   tell saudia arabia to grow up,their demands are like when a child 16:26  |  terrornator 23/11/07
      16.   Iskander#2.... WE DON`T NEED YOU EITHER... 16:37  |  TrippleJump 23/11/07
      17.   Just Talk 17:02  |  Yosemite 23/11/07
      18.   Palestinians and Arabs have always wanted peace. 17:09  |  El-Birawi 23/11/07
      19.   The arabs have seen this is their chance to move in for the kill 17:27  |  zionist forever 23/11/07
      20.   Implicit Saudi recognition of Israel 17:27  |  Conroy 23/11/07
      21.   Saudis and Abu 17:28  |  Bobby 23/11/07
      22.   14 17:32  |  zionist forever 23/11/07
      23.   OLMERT IS A DEFEATIST AND LEFTIST 17:36  |  ROB SCHWARTZ 23/11/07
      24.   Re: 18 - El Birawi 17:51  |  zionist forever 23/11/07
      25.   18El Birawi,once the Partition Line of 1947 is accepted,then 17:55  |  lakshmi 23/11/07
      26.   Why do they want a mediaevel dictator at the summit ? 18:06  |  Mike 23/11/07
      27.   This summit is a joke 18:32  |  Palestinian Prince 23/11/07
      28.   Zionist Forever, continuing with lies Part 1 18:38  |  Palestinian Prince 23/11/07
      29.   Condi prepares for the totally predictable flopperoo 18:40  |  Clickfool 23/11/07
      30.   Zionist Forever, continuing with lies Part 2 18:41  |  Palestinian Prince 23/11/07
      31.   For Conroy # 20 18:48  |  Clickfool 23/11/07
      32.   Saudi Arabia`s Planned JIHAD AGAINST U.S & Other COUNTRIES 19:01  |  Linda Rivera 23/11/07
      33.   El Birawi 19:24  |  Israeli 23/11/07
      34.   Saudi Arabia is the TOP Promoter of Global Jihad... 19:33  |  Linda Rivera 23/11/07
      35.   "Occupied Arab land" 19:33  |  Scott Hunter 23/11/07
      36.   #18 El-Birawi 19:37  |  TOBIA 23/11/07
      37.   EGYPTIAN State-Controlled Paper PRAISED TEL AVIV BOMBING of Jews 19:37  |  Linda Rivera 23/11/07
      38.   PP 19:38  |  Israeli 23/11/07
      39.   12 Bob,18 El Birawi,israel withdrawing to the Partition Line of 19:39  |  lakshmi 23/11/07
      40.   #36 Pay attention to reality 19:56  |  CZ 23/11/07
      41.   #31 Clickfool you haven`t a clue 20:03  |  Conroy 23/11/07
      42.   Clickfool is indeed one 20:07  |  Figaro 23/11/07
      43.   Israel-Arab Peace Plan Principles 20:11  |  Mark Bernadiner 23/11/07
      44.   lakshmi - arafat says you are a liar 20:15  |  CK Tan 23/11/07
      45.   LAKSHMI AND PARTITION LINES 20:16  |  Brant 23/11/07
      46.   abbas blames Israel - but is the truth more like this? 20:16  |  CK Tan 23/11/07
      47.   KEY QUESTION: WHAT WILL BE THE SHAPE OF THE PALESTIAN STATE? 20:41  |  TrippleJump 23/11/07
      48.   Tom re: Joan Peters 20:42  |  Boycott 23/11/07
      49.   Normalization? 20:53  |  Pepe 23/11/07
      50.   #14 Abu Yusuf it`s not that simple 21:12  |  Conroy 23/11/07
      51.   Sick Governments 21:17  |  Double Click 23/11/07
      52.   #8 - Partially Right ... BUT 21:23  |  Double Click 23/11/07
      53.   Peace is in everybody`s interest 21:34  |  Paul Freedman 23/11/07
      54.   Distorted Mind 21:57  |  Double Click 23/11/07
      55.   a positive development 22:23  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 23/11/07
      56.   Pepe - you think Israel is "normal" 22:48  |  Palestinian Brit 23/11/07
      57.   DOUBLE CLICK`S PERETUATION OF FALSE HISTORY 22:50  |  Brant 23/11/07
      58.   And Jews killed Rabin because he signed Oslo 22:58  |  El-birawi 23/11/07
      59.   # 12 Bob "SAUDIS SCREW THE PALESTINAINS" 23:08  |  17 23/11/07
      60.   Yes Lakshmi, Why Not Turn Back Time to the Bible too? 23:09  |  Jane 23/11/07
      61.   Abbas: "....both sides stuck to their positions 23:09  |  Figaro 23/11/07
      62.   44C.K.Tan,CK,sorry dear chap but you are living in the distant 23:11  |  lakshmi 23/11/07
      63.   47 Triple Jump here`s the answer:israel`s withdrawal to the 1947 23:24  |  lakshmi 23/11/07
      64.   LAKSHMI AND 1947 00:03  |  Brant 24/11/07
      65.   lakshmi.Israel 01:04  |  Figaro 24/11/07
      66.   60 Jane, you are like someone standing on the Titanic and not 01:16  |  lakshmi 24/11/07
      67.   BOYCOTT: SOME FACTS, IMMEMORIAL 01:20  |  Brant 24/11/07
      68.   WHY DON`T GO TO DISNEYLAND, ABBAS 01:22  |  indrajaya 24/11/07
      69.   Annapolis petition 01:26  |  Reuven Yacov 24/11/07
      70.   Lakshmi, silly old girl, 01:40  |  The Seer 24/11/07
      71.   Why should Palestinians recognize Israel... 02:29  |  Maureen Ann 24/11/07
      72.   70 The Seer,nice try,something everyone can agree on,by which you 03:09  |  lakshmi 24/11/07
      73.   Abbas` position 05:14  |  Tosefta 24/11/07
      74.   # 18 El-Birawi 05:54  |  Lynn 24/11/07
      75.   #55 Cipora JK ....exactly!!!!! 06:27  |  Lynn 24/11/07
      76.   #75, Lynn 06:44  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 24/11/07
      77.   Abbas does not have the power to enforce any peace agreement 06:52  |  Marwan مروان خوري 24/11/07
      78.   MURINE AN,my deer,Baba is waiting with oben arms to recognize you 07:10  |  Jalal Shahid 24/11/07
      79.   #73, Tosefta, in whose name are you negotiating? 07:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 24/11/07
      80.   #77, Marwan 07:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 24/11/07