Thursday, July 23, 2009

"... He does not want to see or hear us ...but why?"


Maya Bengal and Arik Bender in Ma'ariv via the PULSE:

"Since Binyamin Netanyahu entered the Prime Minister's Bureau over 100 days ago, talks have not been renewed with the Palestinians. New information, however, shows that this is not only due to a Palestinian refusal.....

It would appear, however, that the position of the prime minister's right hand man, National Security Adviser Uzi Arad, is tougher. Recently, senior PA official Saeb Erekat, who is one of the chief [Palestinian] negotiators, requested to meet with Arad. Sources in the Prime Minister's Bureau said that Erekat presented the goal of the meeting as "discussing current affairs, and in advance of the Fatah convention on August 4." Arad, however, refused to meet with Erekat, in light of "his statements on Jerusalem," as sources in the Prime Minister's Bureau put it. They did not, however, specify the statements in question.
Radio Kol Hai, which first reported this, based its report on a quote by Saeb Erekat, who said, "the Israeli prime minister doesn't want to meet with us. In the past few days they said that we would meet-and then suddenly canceled."

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