tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109609079602445946.post857973134894093256..comments2024-02-28T17:52:45.946+00:00Comments on A Mid-East Journal: An Israeli-Palestinian meeting of mindsNeville Tellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14374486593206478730noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109609079602445946.post-57884137752801396402012-12-31T14:59:24.442+00:002012-12-31T14:59:24.442+00:00You may be right. As I say in the blog, double ta...You may be right. As I say in the blog, double talk has been endemic to both Arafat and Abbas, and the result may be that finally it turns round and bites Abbas. In short, he may have inured his own constituency so much with "traditional" anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist rhetoric that if he ever did return to the negotiating table (the table he sat at with Netanyahu in September 2010, hosted by the US amd with Egypt and Jordan in attendance), he may be unable to carry his own people with him.<br />There is a place for wishful thinking in what appears to be an intractable problem. "Blue sky thinking" can be the key that leads to effective action.<br />Neville Tellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14374486593206478730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109609079602445946.post-84856742112894017172012-12-31T14:44:01.411+00:002012-12-31T14:44:01.411+00:00"Hamas refuses to recognise Israel’s right to..."Hamas refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist; Abbas has taken to asserting it."<br /><br />Maybe I've lost the thread somewhere, but surely Abbas has declared on several occasions that he will never recognise Israel as the Jewish nation-state and that, as well as the formation of a Palestinian state, he wants all the refugees (including the descendants of the "originals")to be returned to what is now Israel. All this is a clear indication of his plans and intentions.<br /><br />I'm sorry, but there has been, and will continue to be, so much double-talk issuing from his mouth that I cannot see that there can ever be a real settlement with the so-called Palestinians. Those who continue to believe that there can and will be one are simply indulging in wishful thinking Gordon Rossnoreply@blogger.com