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Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. (AP)
Last update - 10:42 03/04/2008
Senior Palestinian: We need to halt talks with Israel
By DPA
Tags: Palestinians, peace process 

A senior Palestinian official Thursday called for a halt in negotiations with Israel in response to a recent Israeli decision to intensify settlement activity in Palestinian areas.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee and member of the Palestinian negotiating team, told the official Voice of Palestine radio station that the Palestinian Authority should halt talks with Israel as long as it expands settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

"We cannot continue negotiations and have a political process under an Israel deception and a United States administration unwilling to do anything about it," he said.
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"If [the U.S.] is unable to stop [Israel's] settlements, it will not be able to bring peace," he said.

The Palestinian Authority "should generate a major crisis equal to the crisis Israel has generated and we should start by saying enough, we cannot continue with political negotiations," he said.

"This [Israeli settlement] conspiracy is the peak of all conspiracies and it is called negotiations, dialogue and political efforts, yet we do not see any of this on the ground," Abed Rabbo said.

"What we see is changing facts on the ground and taking advantage of the regional and international situation to implement the scheme," he concluded.

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      1.   Qassams fromn the West Bank please! 09:48  |  Dutch Dirk 03/04/08
      2.   Stop negotiating with the snake and await Obama 09:53  |  Chanalau, Tova 03/04/08
      3.   Stop negotiating with the snake and await Obama 09:54  |  Chanalau, Tova 03/04/08
      4.   Boycott fake peace negotiations? Sounds like a plan 10:12  |  Natallie Durson 03/04/08
      5.   STREETS NAMED 4 YOUR TERROR KILLER GANGS.YOU ARE NO DIFF FR HAMAS 10:37  |  Registered Nurse 03/04/08
      6.   Any Halt means Action 10:40  |  The Archives 03/04/08
      7.   Take back the armoured vehicles 10:44  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/04/08
      8.   You know what, Rabbo, maybe it`s time to change tactics..... 11:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 03/04/08
      9.   OH, OH, RABO SUDDENLY COMES AS A HERO 11:04  |  indrajaya 03/04/08
      10.   PLO always rejected all peace agreements that left Israel intact. 11:09  |  Jean Van Daem 03/04/08
      11.   "STOP negotiating" is itself a negotiating ploy. 11:15  |  PETER SM 03/04/08
      12.   150 Millions paid by whom? 11:21  |  Andreas 03/04/08
      13.   Oslo, and all subsequent agreements were a failure 11:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 03/04/08
      14.   Cipora your post 13 11:37  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/04/08
      15.   Chanalau if you`re a Jew the jihad is against you too 11:41  |  x-ray 03/04/08
      16.   Yasser Abed Rabbo simply calls-a-spade-a-spade 12:03  |  Esther 03/04/08
      17.   The only fools are those in Ramallah 12:29  |  El-Birawi 03/04/08
      18.   Re Cipora #13 12:29  |  Esther 03/04/08
      19.   stop negotiating and enter arab palestine 12:39  |  v hardman 03/04/08
      20.   Esther he calls a spade digging & building a spayed (sterility) 12:46  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/04/08
      21.   both sides have idiots, they have RABID Rabbo 15:17  |  dav zee 03/04/08
      22.   NO TRUER WORDS WERE EVER SPOKEN 15:27  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      23.   Why Is Israel Building? 15:32  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      24.   natalie durson 15:33  |  danny 03/04/08
      25.   Barak Has Been a Bad Boy! 15:35  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      26.   Cipora Julianna Kohn, so says the zionist 15:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      27.   Honor Rabin - Send PLO Back to Tunisia 15:42  |  Straight Talk 03/04/08
      28.   rockets on Israel don`t count, as do assassinatd Israeli children 15:44  |  superjew 03/04/08
      29.   Quit now Rabbo. NOBODY will stop us from settling our land! 15:44  |  Chaim 03/04/08
      30.   Eating the pizza while negotiating over it 15:46  |  Tosefta 03/04/08
      31.   #23 Sullivan. We`re building because this is our land. 15:47  |  Chaim 03/04/08
      32.   Chaim, deceit, lies and rationalisations 15:58  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      33.   America, this article is for YOU!!! 15:59  |  Ivar 03/04/08
      34.   Peace? 16:01  |  Cool B 03/04/08
      35.   Margie of S.A. 16:03  |  GABE1 03/04/08
      36.   #8 swiss dino - your FINAL solution is already HAPPENING 16:06  |  CK Tan 03/04/08
      37.   Tosefta in the USA @30 16:07  |  GABE1 03/04/08
      38.   Chaim is waiting for the next Sargon or Nebuchadnezzar 16:09  |  Ivar 03/04/08
      39.   "Watch what we do, not what we say." 16:10  |  Mark Lincoln 03/04/08
      40.   Well,Chaim, you know what comes with the land 16:19  |  Murray 03/04/08
      41.   halt talks with Israel 16:22  |  Ralph 03/04/08
      42.   #13/14 Two birds of a feather. Marge&Cipora 16:31  |  Roo 03/04/08
      43.   U.S. can`t bring peace because Pals don`t want it 16:37  |  Sam 03/04/08
      44.   Marge from South Africa? 16:39  |  Roo 03/04/08
      45.   #22, 23,25,26 Sullivan trots out the fake "occupation" lie AGAIN 16:42  |  smarter then sully 03/04/08
      46.   Pals.-for every attack = 1000 housing units 17:00  |  Abu Halil 03/04/08
      47.   smarter than sully #45 17:03  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      48.   Why not? 17:06  |  Walter 03/04/08
      49.   Right. Stop negotiating. Give Israel more time to build and 17:07  |  Romano 03/04/08
      50.   THE BEAUTY OF ISRAEL 17:08  |  indrajaya 03/04/08
      51.   V2`s from Dusseldorf to Amsterdam! 17:09  |  Romano 03/04/08
      52.   CK Tan #36 17:09  |  Roo 03/04/08
      53.   Just ignore Natallie D, as she suggests ignoring the threats 17:11  |  Romano 03/04/08
      54.   #39-Mark Lincoln`s shell game 17:17  |  peter 03/04/08
      55.   # 36 CK Tan, for the 0,000000000001 % probability........ 17:21  |  Swiss (Dino) 03/04/08
      56.   Just ignore Natallie D, as she suggests ignoring the threats 17:33  |  Romano 03/04/08
      57.   Its simple stop expanding the settlements 17:36  |  Jonathan 03/04/08
      58.   Rabbo, if you made some concessions, you would see progress 17:36  |  McQueen 03/04/08
      59.   #2- your guilt caused self flagellation is sad to behold. 17:38  |  redmike 03/04/08
      60.   The Clueless peter in Montreal #54 17:39  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      61.   Please Please Please 17:41  |  Zev 03/04/08
      62.   roo all condemnation and no explanation 17:46  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/04/08
      63.   roo how bigoted of you. 17:50  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 03/04/08
      64.   Jonathan it won`t stop because there is no will to do so #57 17:52  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/04/08
      65.   RABBO SHOULD TRIED FOR TREASON 18:09  |  Joe 03/04/08
      66.   #47 you still refuse to answer the question(s) 18:15  |  smarter then sully 03/04/08
      67.   To CJK (#13) 18:23  |  Morris Valentine 03/04/08
      68.   It`s about time 18:26  |  Michael N 03/04/08
      69.   Joe-Did you Pals think Israel would agree to cease to exist? 18:36  |  Sam 03/04/08
      70.   Sam of Canada 19:07  |  Joe 03/04/08
      71.   Merely a pretext to continue killing civilians; Apartments don 19:10  |  JP 03/04/08