The talks between Netanyahu and Abbas was a totally daft idea. While Netanyahu has been talking to Abbas, who is supposed to be for peace with Israel, Abbas has been preparing for war, and is meeting with Hamas and Hizbullah behind the backs of the Israelis
This places the Netanyahu Government in a totally indefensible position and makes all of the talk about peace into nothing more than a trap.
While Israel has been talking to Abbas of the PA, Abbas has been planning to bring in Hamas into the talks.
This is also what the whole of the EU under Ashton is after, also Blair, above all the Obama Government.
They know that the real power among these Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” is Hamas, Hizbullah, Syria and of course Iran. Abbas of course is part of the same antisemitism and total hatred for Israel.
We have always said that Obama was not all that different to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and so it will prove as they prepare to bring Hamas in.
It appears that one of the people on the Hamas delegation was the very terrorist who was behind the recent murder of the 4 Jewish people in Judea.
Debkafile report follows
Deep in the gloom behind frantic US efforts to rescue the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing when Israel’s 10-month construction freeze runs out Sunday, Sept. 26, debkafile’s counter-terror sources report a new stumbling block has appeared on the diplomatic track.
In New York, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Abbas Friday, Sept. 24, not to walk out of the talks with Israel after only two sessions. Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who delayed his return home, and negotiator Yitzhak Molcho met with US and Palestinian officials to join the effort. They all appeared to be struggling for a compromise on the settlement construction issue that would keep Abbas talking, without compromising the government’s position at home.
In fact, they found themselves grappling with a new impediment: This week, Abbas sent a high-ranking delegation of his own Fatah party to Damascus for secret talks with top Hamas leaders, thereby swinging the critical focus of the Israel-Palestinian peace talks to a new internal Palestinian track led by the radical Hamas and Syria, the foremost opponents of the US-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Abbas was apparently supported in this shift by Egypt.
The Fatah delegation consisted of Azzam al Ahmad, Gen. Nasser Yusuf and Sahar Basiso, head of Fatah General Intelligence, sat down with Hamas’ leader Khaled Meshaal, head of its politburo Mussa Abu Marzouk and Izzat Rishak, intelligence chief.
The delegation’s composition was an added complication and hindrance to diplomatic progress.Rishak personally orchestrated the first attacks on the West Bank on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, in which four Israelis were murdered and two injured. debkafile’s counter-terror sources report that these were the opening shots of a major Hamas terror campaign, designed to peak with the most devastating terrorist strike yet, which Rishak is in charge of planning. He is using the same perpetrators. They are still at large because Hamas imported unknown terrorist talent from Syria whose faces are unknown to the Shin Bet. However, a furious hunt is on to catch them in time.
Israeli defense sources reacted angrily to the news of the Fatah-Hamas get-together. While slapping down an ultimatum for partnering Israel in peace talks, Mahmoud Abbas, they said, was furtively engaged in give-and-take in the Syrian capital with Hamas terrorists who he knows to be the warpath.
Clinton’s diplomatic skills have suddenly been doubly taxed: She must contrive an acceptable formula for the settlement construction imbroglio and so keep the direct Palestinian-Israeli talks running, while at the same time squashing the new Palestinian-Hamas-Syrian track surreptitiously initiated by Mahmoud Abbas. A possible alternative might be one which the Obama administration has begun exploring of late, according to debkafile’s Washington sources, and that is to cut Syrian and Hamas negotiators into the direct Israel-Palestinian track.This means that the direct Israel-Palestinian direct talks, which Barack Obama called the crux of his Middle East policy during his speech to the UN last Thursday, have been virtually hijacked. Washington is struggling to maintain a grip on a process which Abbas has handed over to Damascus and Hamas.
Hillary Clinton when she meets Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem Monday, Sept. 27, is likely to test the possibility of an agreement on this issue.
Hence, in New York, Assistant US Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeff Feltman told reporters that his government would like to see Israel and Syria settle their differences as part of a comprehensive peace, which “has to include a Syria-Israel track.”
Unfortunately, the leaders of Israel cannot see the forest for the trees. They do not understand the situation that Israel is in and they do not understand how the world works.