AP Interview: Abbas says recognitions hit Israel

[FR7 Baptist]

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that a recent wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based upon 1967 borders is pressuring Israel and the U.S. to return to negotiations and reach a peace deal.

Abbas, in Brazil to lay the cornerstone of a Palestinian Embassy and attend the inauguration of President-elect Dilma Rousseff, told The Associated Press in an interview that recent recognition of a Palestinian state by several Latin American nations would help push the U.S. and Israel into new talks.

"These recognitions of a Palestinian state will help us to convince the Israelis on the necessity to reach a two-state solution," said Abbas.

The current round of peace negotiations collapsed in late September, just weeks after they were launched, when Israel ended a slowdown on settlements in West Bank areas it captured in 1967, land where the Palestinians plan to build their state. By December, the U.S. abandoned trying to persuade Israel to halt the settlements.

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[billwald]

It better be a three state solution. No one remembers how the Brits messed up India with a similar two state solution?

 

[freeatlast]

I would be very surprised if israel ever gives up any land for any reason. all they now have belongs to them anyway and much more according to scripture. So talk all they want, but keep the land.

 

[FR7 Baptist]

I would be very surprised if israel ever gives up any land for any reason. all they now have belongs to them anyway and much more according to scripture. So talk all they want, but keep the land.

They need to go back to the 1967 borders. The Bible has nothing to do with it.

 

[freeatlast]

They need to go back to the 1967 borders. The Bible has nothing to do with it.

Why do they need to go back?

 

[FR7 Baptist]

Why do they need to go back?

A few things need to happen first. Hamas needs to renounce the use of violence and recognize the right of Israel to exist. Israel needs to remove the Jewish settlements from the West Bank. Then Israel needs to go back to the 1967 borders so a free and independent Palestinian state can be formed out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They could also trade some other land in exchange for keeping the some of the settlements. Both sides need to negotiate in good faith and come to a mutually agreeable solution.

 

[freeatlast]

A few things need to happen first. Hamas needs to renounce the use of violence and recognize the right of Israel to exist. Israel needs to remove the Jewish settlements from the West Bank. Then Israel needs to go back to the 1967 borders so a free and independent Palestinian state can be formed out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They could also trade some other land in exchange for keeping the some of the settlements. Both sides need to negotiate in good faith and come to a mutually agreeable solution.

You did not answer my question. Why do they need to go back?