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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shaking hands after their meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (GPO)
Last update - 23:29 19/02/2008
PM meets Abbas, but Jerusalem not on agenda
By Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff , Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: israel, condoleezza rice 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem Tuesday evening. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who heads the Israeli peace negotiations team, and the head of the Palestinian team, Ahmed Qureia, were also present at the meeting.

The two leaders did not discuss the sensitive issue of Jerusalem during their meeting, despite Abbas' earlier calls not to postpone addressing the contentious issue, a senior official at the Prime Minister's Office said.

"The issue of Jerusalem did not come up in the discussion. I'm not aware of changes in the Israeli position," the official said.
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Israeli officials said the leaders had agreed to accelerate peace talks.

However, senior Abbas aide and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat disputed the report that Jerusalem was not discussed, saying that the leaders had discussed "all the core issues."

Erekat said Abbas and Olmert reviewed the issues without reaching agreement and set another meeting in two weeks. Abbas also raised concerns about Israel's blockade of Gaza and pushed for release of Palestinian prisoners.

Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev said following the meeting that "Israel is committed to discussing all the core issues," adding that negotiators would meet on an "almost daily" basis.

Regev said Olmert was "very clear" earlier this week when he asserted Abbas had accepted an Israeli suggestion to delay talks on Jerusalem until the end of negotiations on Palestinian statehood.

He declined to say whether the prime minister had changed his position after Palestinians this week insisted that Abbas had made no such commitment.

The two leaders began meeting regularly even before they promised U.S. President George W. Bush last November to work toward an agreement by the end of the year.

Though Olmert has said he is committed to painful compromises for peace, his government is pressing ahead with construction projects in a disputed part of Jerusalem and maintaining dozens of West Bank roadblocks, angering the Palestinians - while Abbas appears incapable of retaking control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas militants, who have been taking part in daily rocket barrages at Israel.

In Gaza City, the Hamas Cabinet released a statement saying Abbas has no mandate to make concessions to Israel.

Earlier Tuesday, Livni said that halting peace talks with the Palestinian Authority would not bring an end to terror attacks against Israelis.

"Whoever thinks stopping negotiations will stop terror is not in touch with reality," Livni told a Jerusalem conference.

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party, a key coalition ally of Olmert's, has threatened to quit the government should peace talks progress despite the ongoing Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and habitual Palestinian attacks in the West Bank.

Earlier Tuesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told a group of American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem that little progress was being made in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and a peace agreement likely won't be possible by the end of the year if the pace isn't quickened.

"My own sense ... is that not enough has happened over the past nearly three months that could suggest to me that a treaty per se is going to be possible by the end of 2008," Fayyad told a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "The pace has to be stepped up significantly."

Discussing the Gaza Strip, Fayyad said success in peace negotiations would undermine support in Gaza for Hamas.

Progress in talks will create a positive dynamic, generating support in Gaza for the moderate Palestinian government he heads, Fayyad said. "How long [Gaza] will take to settle I do not know," he said.

Fayyad said the U.S. Congress had set aside $218 million in aid for the Palestinians, and he expected the funds would be transferred next month. The money is part of $7.7 billion pledged to the Palestinians by international donors at a conference in Paris in December.

Fayyad said the Palestinians were likely to hold another major investors conference in Bethlehem "immediately after" a World Economic Forum event scheduled to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh in mid-May.

Israeli source: U.S. agrees to delay talks on Jerusalem

A senior Jerusalem source said Monday that Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had agreed to defer talks on Jerusalem to the final stage of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

The source said Olmert and Rice had talked on the telephone about a week and a half ago, and that Rice accepted Olmert's position that discussing Jerusalem at the very beginning could jam the negotiations and obstruct them.

However, Abbas insisted Monday that discussions on the status of the city must not be postponed.

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      1.   Just Say No 02:53  |  JJ 19/02/08
      2.   This is beyond a joke... 02:54  |  British Leftie 19/02/08
      3.   With a big grin I observe - only an idiot thought 02:56  |  Mark Lincoln 19/02/08
      4.   Stop procrastinating! 03:34  |  david 19/02/08
      5.   This is bull 03:35  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 19/02/08
      6.   What sort of sick joke is this????? 04:04  |  Johnboy 19/02/08
      7.   Anyone still to the Failed Rice? 04:06  |  Ben 19/02/08
      8.   Rice and Olmert and Shas 04:42  |  howiej 19/02/08
      9.   The ROOT of the Problem 04:48  |  Ghassan 19/02/08
      10.   just say yes 04:56  |  JJ 19/02/08
      11.   Jerusalem,refugees,etc 05:50  |  Shmuelshachor 19/02/08
      12.   Palestinians treat themselves worse than anyone else treats them 05:52  |  Nechama 19/02/08
      13.   Rocket attacks. 06:29  |  sandra chitayat 19/02/08
      14.   NEGOTIATIONS COST LIVES! STOP ALL TALKS OF SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY) 06:31  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 19/02/08
      15.   you know why ? 07:12  |  tony harris 19/02/08
      16.   Abbas is NOBODY. Talks with him have mo sense. 07:19  |  V 19/02/08
      17.   Abbas taken for a ride - again! 07:24  |  Palestinian Brit 19/02/08
      18.   Without solving Jerusalem there will be no peace 07:25  |  Kris 19/02/08
      19.   If So, Americans Are Fools 07:34  |  Moshe 19/02/08
      20.   talks 07:45  |  colin 19/02/08
      21.   Before the days of Muhammad. 08:29  |  Jean Van Daem 19/02/08
      22.   There is only one reasonable to deal with Jerusalem: The Old City 08:51  |  Itamar 19/02/08
      23.   Jerusalem and Palestinian Refugees 08:54  |  Daniel 19/02/08
      24.   Lack of real partner for peace 09:06  |  Daniel 19/02/08
      25.   GIVE THEM JERUSALEM 09:46  |  SMART JEW 19/02/08
      26.   One state for all of Palestine the only solution 09:49  |  Chanalau, Tova 19/02/08
      27.   #3, MarkL has been reduced to a big grin 10:06  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      28.   Abbas is correct - let`s put Jerusalem on the table 10:17  |  redmike 19/02/08
      29.   forget about peaceprocess! 10:32  |  lola 19/02/08
      30.   No right to return. 10:38  |  Charles Smyth 19/02/08
      31.   Israel is actually negotiating with the United States 10:51  |  Tarik 19/02/08
      32.   ABBAS INSISTED? INSISTED? LoL 10:55  |  indrajaya 19/02/08
      33.   Jerusalem is not for sale! 10:57  |  Avraham 19/02/08
      34.   sick joke, jOHNBOY 11:22  |  akiva (zionist) 19/02/08
      35.   Put Olmert on Trial For Complicity To Jihad Anti-Jewish Program 11:45  |  Joseph . E 19/02/08
      36.   NEGOTIATIONS 11:50  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      37.   # 10 11:57  |  JJ 19/02/08
      38.   what a joke... 12:01  |  SHY 19/02/08
      39.   Sadly, once again, the U.S. is showing its "anti-Israel"......... 12:03  |  Swiss (Dino) 19/02/08
      40.   #18 kris kross again! believes in fairyland 12:08  |  v hardman 19/02/08
      41.   NEGOTIATIONS W/ FATAH TERROR!!!!! WHAT ABOUT THE ROADMAP!!!!! 12:24  |  Yaakov 19/02/08
      42.   Abbas should `do a Kosovo` and declare Pal independence. 12:30  |  Michael 19/02/08
      43.   NEGOTIATIONS W/ WHOM??? 12:33  |  Ariel 19/02/08
      44.   No one trust the Palestinian leadership 12:50  |  El-Birawi 19/02/08
      45.   what terror really means 13:00  |  jj burke 19/02/08
      46.   IS THIS ISRAEL ACTS TO BOOST ABBAS POSITION? LOL 13:01  |  indrajaya 19/02/08
      47.   Livni:Halting peace talks with PA will not end terror. 13:08  |  Akram Zekaria 19/02/08
      48.   The Peace Process didnt stop terror! 13:09  |  eddie 19/02/08
      49.   Livni: Peace talks with PA increase terror! Shows weakness. 13:14  |  Dave 19/02/08
      50.   42 inderaja 13:18  |  mike 19/02/08
      51.   Wholistic solution 13:18  |  Abraham 19/02/08
      52.   None of you seem to get the obvious 13:29  |  Ariel 19/02/08
      53.   The Talks To First Set Borders Are Dangerous 13:32  |  Joseph E . post 1 19/02/08
      54.   more suffering and misery: the particular joy of the wicked 13:34  |  Joseph E . post 2 19/02/08
      55.   #26 the midnight choo choo leaves for palestine ? 13:36  |  v hardman 19/02/08
      56.   And preventing them from working will? 13:38  |  Mark Lincoln 19/02/08
      57.   Livni: The Piece talks ARE TERROR! 13:38  |  Jeff 19/02/08
      58.   WHY DO WE NEED CONDI`S CONSENT? 13:39  |  Miriam 19/02/08
      59.   Either a 2 state solution based on the Partition Resolution of 13:43  |  lakshmi 19/02/08
      60.   Israel....goal of eternal war...Lincoln`s constant downfall 13:59  |  x-ray 19/02/08
      61.   Gaza and West Bank "two states living side by side" 14:05  |  r 19/02/08
      62.   `teghogh` JJ Burke? 14:05  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/02/08
      63.   #58, Miriam 14:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      64.   Swiss, you`re right 14:17  |  sh 19/02/08
      65.   WHEN WILL ISRAEL`S TERROR CAMPAIGN END? 14:20  |  JH 19/02/08
      66.   Lakshmi - here are three more options 14:22  |  Ariel 19/02/08
      67.   cant Livni see that talks along with active terrorism are not... 14:22  |  Avi 19/02/08
      68.   These Talks Are Going Nowhere 14:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/02/08
      69.   #56, Mark with the big grin 14:28  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      70.   Tzipi Rabin or Yitzhak Livni....???? 14:30  |  Swiss (Dino) 19/02/08
      71.   #19 Care to notice the "source", Moshe? 14:37  |  Johnboy 19/02/08
      72.   # 2 British Leftie. Sorry to hear of your torture of Jewish child 14:38  |  Cris 19/02/08
      73.   livni 14:38  |  heny 19/02/08
      74.   Livni is an idiot -- should get lost --one of Olmert`s insane 14:42  |  Sal 19/02/08
      75.   I`m Shocked, SHOCKED To Discover That... 14:47  |  Jeff Northridge 19/02/08
      76.   LAKSHMI THE UN seccurity council 242 is the operative resolution 14:50  |  PETER SM 19/02/08
      77.   No to talking peace crap 14:51  |  Brod 19/02/08
      78.   Talks 14:57  |  David 19/02/08
      79.   Peace talks already halted 14:58  |  British Leftie 19/02/08
      80.   If peace talks do not end terror what will? Leftest please answer 15:08  |  Steven 19/02/08
      81.   Why talk peace when the Palestinians are talking war? 15:30  |  ARA 19/02/08
      82.   Let`s organize total, permanent boycott of Shas if it doesn`t... 15:43  |  Chaim 19/02/08
      83.   What are the chances of peace? 15:43  |  Jean Van Daem 19/02/08
      84.   Continuing talks with PA will not end terror either 15:54  |  Gili 19/02/08
      85.   What Indications Has Israel Given 15:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/02/08
      86.   what peace? IDF continues assault &kidnapping of palestinians 16:08  |  Assad-u-LLAH 19/02/08
      87.   Reply to Jeff Northridge (Post No. 74) 16:15  |  Johnny Weintraub 19/02/08
      88.   #42 Are you kidding? 16:24  |  MaryRose 19/02/08
      89.   david#4 16:38  |  ROBERT/MONTREAL 19/02/08
      90.   fayad peace talks 16:39  |  marcel 19/02/08
      91.   #82 Jean Van Daem 16:42  |  tbora 19/02/08
      92.   #5 Rabbi Lazaros 100% right 16:44  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      93.   #6 Johnboy 16:48  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      94.   Continued talks hasn`t helped much either... 16:51  |  Walter 19/02/08
      95.   The causes of Hamas terror today 16:53  |  Tosefta 19/02/08
      96.   Terror Creates Terror 16:55  |  DoubleClick 19/02/08
      97.   neither will continuing 16:57  |  allen 19/02/08
      98.   Daniel a smart man #24 I applaud you 16:57  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      99.   PM Olmert`s judgement is probably correct... 17:00  |  Smadar 19/02/08
      100.   #29 Hey Lola! 17:01  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      101.   Speaking of not in touch with reality 17:03  |  Gee 19/02/08
      102.   indrajaya#32 No division of Jerusalem 17:07  |  ROBERT/Montreal 19/02/08
      103.   poor indrajaya, you are indeed deluded#46 17:11  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      104.   On deferring the Jerusalem talks for later 17:12  |  Tosefta 19/02/08
      105.   # 36 Cipora J.K NEGOTIATIONS. 17:13  |  KATHY 19/02/08
      106.   lakshmi & indra: Writing to Haaretz is your main preoccupation... 17:16  |  Vittorio 19/02/08
      107.   to Jean van 17:32  |  al 19/02/08
      108.   Israel Is Under A Magnifying Glass 17:34  |  Yosemite 19/02/08
      109.   SO WHAT"S NEW 17:48  |  Kevin 19/02/08
      110.   Halting peace talks with PA will not end terror 17:55  |  iletzter 19/02/08
      111.   True That Talks End Not Arab Terror But Truer That Arab Transfer 18:02  |  Joseph E . post 1 19/02/08
      112.   Arabs want to leave Israel 18:03  |  Joseph E . post 2 19/02/08
      113.   It`s not too late to say no to another Arab terror state. 18:04  |  Joseph E . Post 3 19/02/08
      114.   #83 Al from the state of confusion gro up 18:41  |  Robert/Montreal 19/02/08
      115.   Joseph E from Givatayim 18:42  |  Yaakov Sullivan 19/02/08
      116.   al re: Jean van 19:14  |  x-ray 19/02/08
      117.   lakshmi why did you kill tens of thousands 19:17  |  yomtov 19/02/08
      118.   lakshmi hates the white man 19:30  |  yomtov 19/02/08
      119.   117.pathetic yomtov finds worse in histrory than zion`s murder 19:35  |  Assad-u-LLAH 19/02/08
      120.   The March of Folly - Tosefta 20:02  |  Mark Lincoln 19/02/08
      121.   Terror is here to stay. Peace process will..... 20:11  |  Stephen 19/02/08
      122.   What a logic! 20:12  |  Avi 19/02/08
      123.   Peace Talks with Palistineans Stupid 20:21  |  Maurice Zaslawsky 19/02/08
      124.   #105, Kathy, the Arabs do not want peace 20:32  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      125.   #105, Kathy, the Arabs do not want peace 2 20:42  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      126.   #119 - you too are a lying propagandist 20:50  |  Ariel 19/02/08
      127.   Cipora 21:22  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/02/08
      128.   To CJK (#125, 126) 21:26  |  Morris Valentine 19/02/08
      129.   To 124 This could be a test for them 21:33  |  A 19/02/08
      130.   Potemkin Negotiations - What A Joke!! 21:44  |  chet 19/02/08
      131.   Margie in Tel Aviv 21:57  |  Tzahi 19/02/08
      132.   #127, Margie 21:57  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      133.   Jerusalem 21:59  |  G.L. 19/02/08
      134.   Margie in TA, Ben Gurion said the same crap 22:12  |  Ibrahim 19/02/08
      135.   Jerusalem 22:16  |  David 19/02/08
      136.   119 Assad-u-llah,thanks,yomotov is a standing example of a little 22:28  |  lakshmi 19/02/08
      137.   #128, Morris Valentine 22:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/02/08
      138.   David #135 22:55  |  Steve 19/02/08
      139.   Dear Leaders, Please fast and concret actions 23:15  |  Simon Mohammed 19/02/08
      140.   lakshmi "rent the video of the attenborough film gandhi" 23:22  |  yomtov 19/02/08
      141.   lakshmi "today no hindu or muslim condones 23:26  |  yomtov 19/02/08
      142.   lakshmi you deal in fairy stories 23:28  |  yomtov 19/02/08
      143.   JJ: a question 23:30  |  Outsider 19/02/08
      144.   CHET Ridiculous? were you there? 23:32  |  PETER SM 19/02/08
      145.   #99 smadar and judgement are strangers 23:36  |  v hardman 19/02/08
      146.   118yomtov,let me straighten you out a little.I have nothing 23:43  |  lakshmi 19/02/08
      147.   118 yomotov,. . .contd.. . a further example of our adaptability 23:49  |  lakshmi 19/02/08
      148.   tosefta you are so boring do put some punch in your mail 23:53  |  lakshmithebore 19/02/08
      149.   #142 v hardman coexistence between Jews and Arabs 00:00  |  Smadar 20/02/08
      150.   lakshmi about kitchen accidents 00:11  |  yomtov 20/02/08
      151.   lakshmi "the wonder that is india" 00:16  |  yomtov 20/02/08
      152.   lakshmi english is the official language of india 00:18  |  yomtov 20/02/08
      153.   lakshmi and v s naipaul 00:21  |  yomtov 20/02/08
      154.   lakshmi "india the largest functioning democracy" 00:27  |  yomtov 20/02/08
      155.   Abbas is the ultimate stooge 00:29  |  ELIAS KHOURY 20/02/08
      156.   El Birawi #44 with all due respect 00:34  |  Palestinian Prince 20/02/08
      157.   Mariam wake up 00:37  |  Irish Sensation 20/02/08
      158.   To CJK (#137) 00:55  |  Morris Valentine 20/02/08
      159.   To Yom Tov (#154) 01:23  |  Morris Valentine 20/02/08
      160.   smadar "the flourishing history of jews in the middle east" 01:33  |  amir yoffe 20/02/08
      161.   #158, Morris Valentine 01:47  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/02/08
      162.   76Peter SM,on the question of the Partition Resolution,you surely 02:21  |  lakshmi 20/02/08
      163.   Peace comes from abiding the law, God`s and Man. 02:39  |  John I aka Yussef G 20/02/08
      164.   US giving away "Kosovo", no to two states 02:53  |  John I aka Yussef G 20/02/08
      165.   #6 Johnboy - no more of a joke than your pretense 02:57  |  * BEN JABO 20/02/08
      166.   #29 Iola - Spain 03:00  |  *BEN JABO 20/02/08
      167.   #161 Cipora lays her cards on the table 03:09  |  Johnboy 20/02/08
      168.   CJK # 161 Israel is the ally that can not be trusted 03:15  |  American in NY 20/02/08
      169.   To CJK (#158) 03:20  |  Morris Valentine 20/02/08
      170.   88 Maryrose...exactly what do the Pals have left 03:55  |  kiwi girl 20/02/08
      171.   Jeff Northridge #75 04:16  |  TonyL 20/02/08
      172.   156 Palestinian Prince,further to your reply to El Birawi,to be 04:26  |  lakshmi 20/02/08
      173.   #160 Amir Yoffe 05:03  |  Smadar 20/02/08
      174.   Is anything on the agenda? 05:50  |  Mark Lincoln 20/02/08
      175.   Who `does not want peace"? 05:57  |  Mark Lincoln 20/02/08
      176.   168 American in NY - What happened, got lost 06:23  |  Malach HaMavet 20/02/08
      177.   #170 Kiwi Girl - stop being so silly 06:31  |  * BEN JABO 20/02/08
      178.   Mark Lincoln #174 06:31  |  TonyL 20/02/08
      179.   Mark: Israel wants a good Peace,Pals want a good Piece 06:58  |  bill gordon 20/02/08
      180.   #169, Morris Valentine: " a kind word or a good deed" 07:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/02/08
      181.   #169, Morris Valentine, 2 07:31  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/02/08
      182.   #168, ANY 07:33  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/02/08
      183.   # 75, JEFF NORTHRIDGE 07:56  |  indrajaya 20/02/08
      184.   #178 TonyL just disregards the mutual obligations 08:09  |  Johnboy 20/02/08
      185.   Malach HaMavet # 176 re; what battles 14:37  |  American in NY 20/02/08
      186.   185 American in NY 16:54  |  Malach HaMavet 20/02/08
      187.   To CJK (#180, 181) 17:11  |  Morris Valentine 20/02/08
      188.   Morris Valentine- Cipora`s #181-182 20:14  |  Dorothy 20/02/08
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