Abbas blames Obama for stalling peace talks

Middle East News.Net
Sunday 7th February, 2010

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed US President Barack Obama for delaying the resumption of Middle East peace talks.

Mr Abbas, in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, said Mr Obama had not been firm enough over his initial demands for a complete freeze in West Bank settlements.

Abbas added that the US administration had changed its stance on the matter after reassuring Palestinians that President Obama would force Israel to announce a complete settlement freeze.

He said was unsatisfied with the US president, as he no longer felt any optimism that the Obama administration would make demands on the Israelis over the settlement matter.

President Obama's special Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, has blamed Abbas for the stalled talks, saying the Palestinians are unenthusiastic due to their uncertainty about the outcome.

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Anonymous
02-07-10, 10:28 PM

Abbas blames Obama for stalled talks

Nobody else to be blame but the Basanova.

Anonymous
02-08-10, 05:47 AM

Abbas needs to stand on his own feet. Sitting on fence and blame everybody else is the ploy while gazans suffer.

Syed Suhail Khalid
02-08-10, 11:43 AM

Wrong expectation!

The Gazelle must not expect the mother crocodile to be tough with its offspring which is given birth by it’s mother solely to murder it.

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