I don't know why but time and again I am surprised with the news of the newest demands by the Palestinian Authority just in order to continue talking.
The latest is to be presented today when Mahmoud Abbas will be meeting with US President Barak Obama. According to news reports, Abbas is going to demand the release of a list of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including a couple of high-profile prisoners, such as Marwan Barghouti. In addition to that, Abbas will be demanding a construction freeze by Israel. And all this is just so that Abbas will agree to continue talking to Israel until the end of 2014.
Abbas keeps making demands for Israeli concessions just for the goal of sitting and talking - if it was as part of an actual agreement, that would be one thing. But just in order to continue sitting and talking? We have done this too many times already.
I hope Netanyahu can withstand the pressure that will surely be put on him...
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