Hamas calls on Palestinian Authority to boycott peace talks with Israel

If the meeting does take place as planed .Then here is the proof that the Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is irrelevant ..........a .hasbeen .

The only question is whether generations to come will forgive the participants of the peace process for their failure.

till when. No results that impact peoples lives.How can people jump on the band wagon of peace if the bandwagon is bogged down and not going anywhere? No dividens of peace , no incentive to peace.

The peace talks would succeed if hamas was muzzled, defanged, and elliminated. The rest of the so-called palestinians should accomplish this by themselves.

Very interesting how people focus on Hamas now whereas 15 years ago Arafat and the PLO was the devil. Before that the fedayins were the devil......in other words any Palestinian is the devil right ? what's the difference between 'Hamas charter' and Likud or even kadima political program ? ever asked yourself that question ? no. You live in your little bubble being persuaded that the evil is elsewhere. That keeps you away from your own realities. Very convenient indeed !

After having read some of the background re: Hamas fleeing Damascus amid Syrian unrest and according to Arab news sources (al-Hayat and al-Awsat) that Hamas Khaled Mashaal and Moussa Abu Marzouk-already in Amman,Jordan- want to establish their new headquarters in Jordan and King Abdullah's g'ment -on the condition of no political work -there has been a snag in Hamas negotiations with the Hashemite Kingdom. Hamas might also have been reassured by Tturkey's PM Erdogan's stands . This time there can be no doubt who is on the driver's seat when it comes to Fatah,Hamas,Al Aqsa,Islamic Jihad,PFLP et al..

Israel, under the current government, has no intention of ever seeing a Palestinian State. The fact that Netanyahu keeps stealing more land tells the world what he thinks of the WB ever belonging to the Pals. It ain't gonna happen under his watch! Unless of course, the USA, that bastion of democracy decised not to use it's veto at the UN-but that ain't gonna happen either.

This "attempt" to finally "restart" negotiations by the "Palestinian delegation" smells like political posturing to me. More likely - this is just an excuse to hype up and rejustify going back to the UN for unilateral recognition.

This is Iran's desperation, reaching another high pitch.

Submit outstanding, unresolvable issues to Compulsory Arbitration. Each side would pick an arbitrator. The two arbitrators pick a third arbitrator. (The arbitrators would be people of the parties' choosing like lawyers, judges, politician, retired heads of state.) The two sides argue their cases to the panel of three arbitrators and the arbitrators will decide. Majority opinion prevails. And that's it. Dispute over. And if the sides walk away disgruntled, remember what a judge once told me, that when everyone walks away unhappy you've probably achieved a good settlement. You've been doing the same things over and over again for 64 years and the results have always been nil. It's insane to keep doing things the same way. try something different.

As a political party it's free to sell its views, recognize who it pleases to recognize, believe what it believes, and denounce who and what it cares to denounce, just as Israeli political parties do...but its out of line when it seeks to undermine efforts toward a Palestinian state with its rhetoric....because it's way will NEVER be

The Palestinian negotiators have been clear that Tuesday's meeting is a formality, and they have been sceptical that Israel would do what's required of it - submit a peace plan and recognize the 1967 borders. There is no chance that anything will come out of it, as we all know, but the Palestinians are right to make this diplomatic gesture. It is diplomatically correct and costs them nothing.

If I were the Jews, I'd be afraid to give them any of my homeland because the person/group you give it to is probably not the person/group who will end up with it...

... That Hamas exists. That Hamas does NOT want to recognize Israel. That Hamas wants Israel to cease existing. That Abbas can travel to Argentina and Norway but not make peace. That he never dared to make peace because he knew his people and their children to whom he promised EVERYTHING which is impossible. That on top of the impossible things there is Hamas ... remember Hamas? That recognition of Palestinian State by Iceland is useless.

Of course no negotiations, Hamas wants the destruction of Israel so negotiations are pointless.

Israel is the one that's hindering negotiations - KEEP IT THAT WAY! Otherwise - you are hindering a successful strategy that offers more hope for a Palestinian state than anything seen to date. Israel has chosen to forego legitimacy - DO NOT COMPETE WITH IT!

There are two groups vying for Palestinian power. Two groups constantly trying to reconcile their differences. The PA wants preconditions before even starting and Hamas says boycott. One does not have to be a genius to see this will be a waste of time unless the PA finally looks into Hamas' eyes and says go away and let us get this done finally.

"These meetings are a repetition of a track that had failed over the past years," Abbas knows that very well, he is no fool

By now Abbas knows for certain that no amount of peace talks will motivate Israel to withdraw from the west bank. Israel uses peace talks as a cover for settlement expansion. The question is, what did Abbas receive to participate in the same fakery that he has been rejecting? A well stocked swiss bank acct?

no wonder palestinians are angry when PA dont keep its promise. Talks leads nowhere since Israel refuse to recognize Palestine.