Israel, Palestinians to seek path back to talks
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, speaks to journalists during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 2, 2012, regarding peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel to take place in Amman, Jordan on January 3.
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After a long stalemate, Jordan is spearheading a new effort to revive the Middle East peace process.
Israeli and Palestinian chief negotiators will meet for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday in Amman. While it is not a formal negotiating session, officials will seek a formula for resuming peace talks that have been deadlocked over Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho will meet with teams from the Quartet of Middle East mediators - the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia.
The key sticking point remains: Palestinians say they will not return to the negotiating table until Israel halts all settlement construction, but the Israeli government has refused.
Expectations are low for the talks, and even Erekat himself says he expects no breakthrough in Jordan.
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"Most Jews who lived in Palestine before 1948 came over AFTER WW2"
Bull!
Only a handful of Jews entered "Palestine" between the end of WWII and 1948 BECAUSE THE BRITS, in a prewar agreement with the Arabs that was never rescinded, WOULDN'T ALLOW ANY IN -- one of the reasons for blowing up the King David Hotel -- another was the Brits sending concentration camp survivors back to Poland, where they were killed on arrival by Poles who blamed them for starting the war.
The Jews only owned 12.5% of the land in 1947.
You're claim is that they had a huge population living on that tiny bit of land BEFORE they started stealing the land from the Palestinians?
Yeah, okay......
Wake me when they've finally went to war and one side has finally finished the other off.
And no - I don't care which side "wins". I just want this BS over with once and for all.