By Stan Goodenough
Dec 12, 2007
Observers opposed to the US-pushed land-for-peace process were pleased to hear Wednesday that the first post-Annapolis "Palestinian"-Israeli negotiations which were held in the Israeli capital that day had got off to a reportedly "rocky start."
According to The Associated Press, the PLO/PA side had come fighting out of the corner, condemning Israel for insisting on building in parts of Jerusalem, and demanding the Olmert government rescind a recently-issued construction tender if it wanted negotiations to continue.
Israel, who as a nation has a 3000-year-old claim to Jerusalem, legally annexed the so-called eastern part of the city after the 1967 Six Day War.
The Palestinian Arabs, who have never in history had a country, let alone a capital, insist that those parts of the city that were in Jordanian-occupied territory between 1949 and 1967 belong to them.
After Wednesday's meeting chief PLO negotiator and veteran liar to the media, Sa'eb Erekat, told journalists he did not know when another round of talks would take place.
"After Paris, we will contact each other to see where we take it from there," he said, referring to next week's conference in the French capital where the PLO is hoping to hear nations pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to the "Palestinian" cause.