Abbas aide: PA will renew talks if 1 of 2 conditions met

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Abbas aide: PA will renew talks if 1 of 2 conditions met
By JPOST.COM STAFF
09/14/2011 13:23

The Palestinian Authority will agree to return to peace negotiations with Israel if only one of two criteria they had previously set as pre-conditions for talks are reached: an immediate halt to all settlement construction or an Israeli declaration that the borders of the Palestinian state will be based on the pre-1967 lines with mutually agreed upon land swaps, a senior aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told Army Radio on Wednesday. "We believe that both the conditions need to exist together, because they are connected to one another," Nimmer Hammad stated. "However, President [Shimon] Peres tried to get Netanyahu to agree to only one condition and he refused," he added. Hammad called on Peres to inform the Israeli public that Netanyahu, and not Abbas, is responsible for the impasse in the peace process.

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PA ‘Offers’ Israel: Accept Demands or Face the UN
Abbas tries to climb off a high diplomatic tree and “offers” Israel previously refused non-starters in return for halting its UN ploy.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 9/14/2011, 2:59 PM

The Palestinian Authority tried to climb down a high diplomatic tree Wednesday and “offered” Israel previously refused non-starters in return for not appealing to the United Nations for recognition. As Western diplomats frantically try to pull a rabbit out of the hat and save the American ”peace process,” Nimmer Hammad, a senior aide to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tried to show that the Palestinian Authority was generous by offering Israel a choice between immediate acceptance of the temporary 1949 Armistice Lines or a total freeze on all building for Jews in Israel's capital of united Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

He told IDF Radio that President Shimon Peres, who previously was reported to have been secretly meeting with Arab leaders, presented Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with the ”offer,” which the Prime Minister refused. The government previously has rejected both demands. The Palestinian Authority, buoyed by voices such as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and The New York Times, is trying to place the onus on Israel for its own intransigence, for the PA's bypassing direct talks with Jerusalem and asking the United Nations for recognition.

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