Hot Air
Lieberman: Israel ready to renew direct peace talks
By JPOST.COM STAFF
10/05/2011
Foreign minister tells gathering of diplomats that J'lem is ready to immediately talk to the Palestinians but rejects Abbas's demand for a renewed building freeze or any other preconditions.
Addressing recent comments by Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas that he would be willing to return to the negotiating table with Israel should it implement a new West Bank building freeze, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Jerusalem is ready to return to the negotiation table "immediately," but rejects any preconditions for doing so.
"We are ready to immediately renew the negotiations without preconditions," Lieberman told diplomats gathered at Beit Hanassi for an Independence Day event on Tuesday.
Responding to Abbas's call for a settlement freeze, Lieberman added, "But there will no building freeze in Jerusalem or in [the West Bank], not for three months, not for three days and not even for three hours."
Criticizing what he characterized as missed opportunities for talks by the Palestinian Authority, he told the gathered diplomats that the Palestinians wasted nine months when Jerusalem "decided on a moratorium as a unilateral gesture a year ago Abbas and the Palestinians rejected it completely."
The foreign minister continued, "it is clear that they are only looking for excuses to avoid meaningful talks that will lead to a comprehensive solution. The Palestinians are overly confident and are assuming that they have the complete support of the international community." This, he said, gives them the idea that they have more to gain from the international community than from negotiations with Israel.
Addressing the recent reconciliation agreement reached by rival Palestinian factions, he said, "That an organization with a charter that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel through violent Jihad and aspires to a world without Jews, not just Zionists and Israelis, but Jews, should be thought of as partners to Fatah tells us more about Fatah than it does about Hamas."
Lieberman asserted that Israel has "the right to wonder about the real intentions of Fatah."
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A Foreign Minister of Israel that says he is willing to sit and talk with the Palestinians, tells us more about the sad state of affairs in Israel than it does about the Palestinians. Lieberman is about as right wing as Meretz.
How about this we tell the world that in light of the agreement between Hamas and Fatah, the Palestinians have signaled their true intent and that is the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. As a result the peace process is null and void.
Israel then annexes Judea and Samaria.
We offer those Palestinians that want to live under Israeli rule with residence status the ability to do so as long as they swear allegiance to the Jewish State. Refuse to do so and out you go, deported.
Lieberman you are a bunch of hot air, a bluff calling you right wing is like trying to say pork is kosher.
You can try and say it but we all know it just isn't .
