"While Israel has some concerns, it will raise them at the appropriate time. Israel calls on the Palestinian Authority to do the same and to enter into direct negotiations without delay," said the statement, released after Netanyahu held consultations with senior cabinet ministers.
IF ABBAS SAYS NO, THEN THE QUARTET SHOULD SUSPEND ALL MONETARY SUPPORT FOR THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK AND FOR GAZA.
The statement also said the expectation is that the parties will come up with a comprehensive proposal on territory and security within three months, and to have made "substantial progress" within six months. To facilitate this, an international conference will be held in Moscow "at the appropriate time."
Netanyahu has in the past objected to the idea – as presented in the Quartet proposal – of isolating security and territories from the other core issues of Jerusalem and refugees, saying that if an agreement on the territorial issue was reached, the Palestinians would have no incentive to compromise later on the issues of refugees and Jerusalem. Rather, his position in the past was that all issues should be discussed simultaneously.
BIBI'S PRIOR POSITION WAS SOUND, BUT TI'S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD AND FINALLY LET THE WORLD SEE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE ARABS REALLY DON'T WANT PEACE IF IT MEANS ISRAEL CONTINUES TO EXIST.
The Palestinian Authority will return to the negotiating table with Israel only if it stops building in the settlements and accepts the pre-1967 lines as the basis for a two-state solution, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Sunday.
In response to Israel's acceptance of the most recent Quartet proposal for resuming the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Abu Rudaineh said: "If Israel is serious, it must abide, without reservations, by international legitimacy as mentioned in the Road Map, UN resolutions and the Arab peace initiative."
Although the PA last week said that proposal contained "encouraging elements," a top PA official in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post that the plan was biased in favor of Israel. The official said that the timing of the publication of the proposal was "suspicious" because it coincided with Abbas's request for membership in the UN.
"The Quartet has lost its credibility, mainly because of its failure to force Israel to stop building in the settlements," the official told the Post.
NO, FATAH HAS LOST ITS CREDIBILITY.
NO IT IS TIME TO CUT THEM OFF FROM FUNDING.
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