PA: Trilateral summit doesn't mean resumption of peace talks

did the jews guarantee peace from the Warsaw ghetto to the Nazis? When did the people of an occupied country do anything else but fight to free themselves?

"Meanwhile, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday condemned the meeting, asserting that it would not obligate the Palestinian people to anything....Hamas does not recognize the authority of Abbas to represent the Palestinian people" Haniyeh reminds us that any deal with the Abbas does not include the 1.5 million Palestinians under Hamas' jurisdiction. This means that Roadmap is FATALLY FLAWED. It can NEVER deliver peace as it doesn't include Gaza. Obama is charging ahead as if it is still 2003. The question is when will the Americans wake up that Hamas have shifted the goalposts?

any and all talks with palestinians will fail

They are intentionally throwing it away, and that is too bad for the peace process. I believe the majority of Israelis and the majority of Pals want peace. If that is correct, why the heck can't the leaders on BOTH sides move more quickly in that direction? Really, both peoples have got to begin questioning their leaders.

abbas cannot even control the pA or hamas. Hamas is more powerful and will not make peace therefor peace will not happen for generations. Without peace there is no reason for Jews to sacrifice the Jewish claim to all of Israel. this sacrifice should only be made as part of a total and final peace agreement that is enforceable and not as a gesture. Without peace Israel should continue to settle the whole of Israel and deal with the remaining colonial arab population in the same way as the black Africans dealt with the European colonisers.

... that's how it all begins...

...opportunity" for peace. This is going to be yet another missed one, by refusing to take the simple step the entire world expects them and recognize Israel's right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people, based on universally accepted rights of all peoples and based on UN resolutions.

Just stay on your side of the 1950 armistice line as determined by the Egyptian-Israeli Territorial Exchange Agreement and everything will be cool, ex-PM Haniyeh. You and the Gazans are welcome to the Gaza Reservation and Terrorist Preserve--all 360 sq. Km. of it--but no more than that. By the way, how are the reconciliation talks with Fatah going these days? Hmm?

more of the same with the PA demanding the same and Israel saying the same. They are just hoping to pull up a little pressure. Nothing will come out of it as there is no where to go with such uncompromising of both the PA and Israel. Until that day.......and the right people for this............pray

If militants like Haniyeh continue to prevail in Gaza the confrontation will continue and escalate. Dirty bombs and biological weapons will be used by one or the other side and what will extremists have accomplished for their people? Even in these reader responses it is advisable that people with strong views begin to moderate them so reason can prevail and there be two peaceful functional states and not a wasteland. Radioactive materials from medicine and fatal diseases (small pox and Spanish flu" can be located and purchased, but what will that gain for the national aspirations of the Palestinians and Israelis if there are millions of deaths? Neither state will survive.

The reason there is so little pressure on Israel is that the Pals have never been able to formulate a detailed peace plan that will be supported by a Palestinian consensus. After 60 years all they have is empty slogans. They want Israel to disappear and, truth be told, they want the Jews to disappear. That's THEIR idea of a one-State "solution". Ain't gonna happen.

can be considered Israel's retort to the Palestinian demand for a "Right of Return" or Jerusalem as capital of Palestine. When the Palestinians give in, so will Israel.

the less land they will have left on which to set up their state. The construction of settlements, legal, illegal, alegal, fleegel, will continue to devour Palestinian land, as long as it is not stopped by a peace agreement. ((Neither the US nor the EU - or Russia or China, for that metter - are able or willing to put a stop to it) The Palestnians are committing political suicide - but that's not new. They've been doing it ever since 1936. The Palestinian leadership fiddles around while Palestine burns.

They both want it all and neither is willing for a fair deal to be struck. Their written platforms could substitute for the other.

As Hamas wants the destruction of Israel.. there will be no peace. Also better to continue the building of the settlements in the west bank, as long as the palis.. do not recognize Israel

What would Haniyeh do without the mad messianic fanaticism of some of our settlers? And what would they do without Ahmad-in-jihad's mad ranting and raving about the myth of the Holocaust? And what would Ahmad-in-jihad do without the madness and evil of the Devil himself? There is unity in hatred after all. What goes around comes around.

They are slowly but surely educating the Israeli public about what the "peace process" really means to the majority of palestinians. They are excellent teachers.

How about Netanyahu as Pharaoh and Haniyeh as Moses? The more Pharaoh's hearth is hardened, the greater the punishment!

, God bless her soul, when she said "There are no Palestinians. The Arabs tha lived on what is now Israel, about 1,200, million in 1948 were an asbly of extended clans. with no secular leadership and we o ifferent from the Arab Palestininas in Jordan, where they form a majority adaerulled by an inported "royal Family,the Hashemites in 1920 by the British, The Joardan so called Palestinians did not object or revolted against the Hashemite.In 1947/48 600,000 Arabs listened to Egyptian,Syrians and Jordanian rulers and run away on the preise that Jews will be trown into the Sea.We won and we won since then every attempt by enemies to destroy Israel.Arafat had 30 years to transform this agglomerate of Calns into a nation and he didn't. Even more damning he had a chance since 1994 )slo Agreement to organize WB and Gaza Arabs into a functioning society with an modern overning entity as a precursor to "Palestinian State" but he didn't.He played devide and rule game to protect his seat.

Haniya is just sore nobody invited him. But his Likud allies will make sure nothing is agreed anyway.