Olmert: Abbas never responded to my peace offer

I think it is time for isreal to fight back, before iran has nukes..Isreal should bomb the nuke sites!!! negotiations arent working, and by the time they do iran will have nukes.

"Olmert also said he had been "hours" from meeting with the Syrian foreign minister during his tenure, but that the talks were canceled after Israel embarked on its offensive in the Gaza Strip." Zionist escape Plan Declare war... sorry cant talk peace with one neighbor while im hitting a little village on the other end. its always the same and its always "some hours away" or a offer that has loop holes that make it less of a offer. offer your enemy a deal he cant accept... and then blame him for everything and go to war ! while meeting your other neighbor and make a conference full of hope and reap the PR advantages and good will and then cancel it at last minute and restart it again. Olmert was horrible in military affairs but he knew his ZIonist civil duties

I wish all leaders in the region the wisdom and courage necessary to arrive at a just peace. Bruce Craig Roter Composer of "A Camp David Overture (Prayer for Peace)

I do not understand how is it that an Israeli Government go out of its way to lose a country like Trukey. I believe any Israeli official who had a hand in losing Turkey should be fired and excluded from any future government. How can this happen. A native Intian once said, I never looked for a friend and found an enemy and I never looked for an enemy and found a friend.

"Olmert said he and Abbas had reached an interim agreement on the Palestinian right of return, but he never received a final response from the Palestinians on the matter" Never. received. a. final. response. So, tell me, did you actually make a "final offer"? After all, you really do need to table a "final offer" if you really want a "final response". And if you did then there must be a document somewhere that sets out what was in that "final offer". So, Ehud, where is it?

but adds that by that time, olmert's legal circumstances had already doomed his credibility as pm. however, there's no doubt that abbas should have taken the offer regardless, leaving it up to olmert's successor to honor it...or not.

olmert is leaving something out to good to be true

Or did he commit crimes that wealthy people don't go to jail for? Mr Shabaneh? To Israel please.

Barak thought he had a deal and Arafat nixed it. Olmert thought he had a deal, Abbas nixed it. They just do not want a settlement, whether its because of pressure from Syria and Iran and possibly Egypt (as was the case with Arafat) or they just want to keep sucking money from the west because they don't believe they can stand on their own feet. It is about time the worlds blamed the Palestinians, and the Arab world. I would bet though that it's the Arab world that is nixing every peace effort. We hear their English pronouncements for peace but we also hear their refutations of the English pronouncement once they speak in Arabic.

Maybe Abbas should say "yes" now and see how Netanyahu takes it. It would make an interesting opening move for the new negotiations.

way peace is put to the palestinians by Israel the palestinians stand to lose land,It's understandable that if the palestinians refuse to move an inch Israel can never truly own any pal land and at some point they may aswell say ok Israel you win you dont want peace without taking from us ,we shall all become Israelis,It seems the pals want all the land after the green line or nothing,who can blame them? What do they have to lose?

longer steal. with no-peace they can steal all they want and do not have to a thing. what a con they have going. you have to give them credit. they have taken the eu, un, usa, china, russia. notice the arab governments will not donate to the pals. words yes, money, never.

Olmert probably made a very unfair offer.

They rejected partition, the Peelplan and in 2000 they even rejected Clinton proposals. They will reject anything propose to them because they are convinced that the United Nations, NGOs and terrorism will enforce Israel to end Israel control of Judea and Samaria and maybe all of the land. They did not grasp reality in 1947 and their strategic reckoning nowadays will prove wrong again.

Without specifics as to the boundries of the "land swap", the "agreement on the right of return," this is just self-serving hooey.

What happened Mr. Olmert is you decided to kill 300 plus children in gaza...effectively ending any prospect of peace with the syrians or palestinians. 2- "where the Jewish part would remain under Israeli authority and the Arab sections would be given to the jurisdiction of a Palestinian state" The reason settlements are a big deal now is because palestinians finally realized it is a land grab.

What happened ? If Abbas had followed up on this and officially accepted Olmert?s peace plan he would have been assassinated the same week. The old man has done well by his constituents bringing them autonomy, relative peace and quiet as well as the growing economy in the WB. If the elections could be run in Gaza today he and his Fatah party would sweep to victory. However, a real move toward peace will have to wait for the new generation of Palestinian leadership. Hopefully, they will be bolder and more amenable to make peace.

The ONLY nation which has the power to make peace in the region always has an excuse that Olmert, or Netanyahu, whom ever, was thwarted at the last moment by someone else. It is a tired line of bull and no one believes it any more.

Same old story. If things were going so well, how come no-one had the imagination to see that raining hell down on a captive civilian population in order to catch a few flies would put a spanner in the works?

How is it that this man who is under indictment is permitted to speak at TAU. That he was giving away Israel's birthright is upsetting enough- that he has not gone to trial is incredible. That anyone could believe what he says is ridiculous. Barak met with the Syrian FM with President Clinton for days- and they could not reach peace- so what is there to be excited about an imagined Olmert-Moallen meeting?

When will the press stop giving this man air time??

How can you tell a politician is lying? His mouth is open. If indeed he has made such a 'generous' offer then let's see all the documentation to back it up. Also, he speaks as if the war on Gaza started without his consent or knowledge. What a character. Israeli statesmen excel at telling us what they were about to do once their tenure is over.

Olmert Almost met the....eh,sorry.Forgot his name. AW.Come On. Give Us A Break !

12 civilians were killed in Afghanistan when a bomb went astray. Wonder iftThere will be a Goldstone report into war crimes?

All, How weird. Abbas wouldn't respond to Olmert's offer. Now he wants to re-open negotiations on the basis of the Olmert offer. Why doesn't Abbas tell Mitchell what his counter-offer would be based on the Olmert position. My understanding is that Olmert spent over a year negotiating with himself. He came up with 3 offers in a row (each more generous than the last) without ever receiving a counter-offer from Abbas. Clearly, even with Obama, Europe and the Islamic world in his corner, he doesn't want to start negotiations.

if true, sounds very similar to the final peace offer made by PM Ehud Barak to Yasir Arafat at the Camp David talks in 2000. Then, too, Arafat, like Abbas, made no answer to Barak's offer. Could it be that in both cases, the Palestinian leader of the time (Arafat in 2000, Abbas in 2008) was in favor of the offer, but was unable, or afrais, to accept the offer because of his fear of the reaction of the more extreme elements of the Palestinian leadership? If this is so, then the hopes of peace are slim, because any Palestinian leader will always align himself with the demands of the most extreme faction, or will make no answer to Israeli offers.

Once again Israel is rescued from the stupidity of its leaders by the mendacity of its enemies.