From The Real News Network:
ABBAS ISOLATED IN MID EAST TALKS
Buttu: Mahmoud Abbas has little support from the Palestinian public for the negotiations
Indirect talks begin in Middle East
WHO BENEFITS FROM ISRAELI OCCUPATION?
US President Barak Obama succeeded in pressuring both the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas into direct talks. This week the leaders, as well as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II met in Washington. However their agreement to enter direct talks was not popular on the ground neither in Israel nor in the occupied Palestinian territories. All Palestinian parties, except for the ruling Fatah, rejected negotiations with Israel. Even president Abbas originally refused to enter negotiations because his basic condition, a total freeze on Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, has not been met. Many in the Palestinian territories also raised concerns about him not being a legitimate representative of the Palestinian side because his term as president expired twice and he is therefore not technically supposed to be in office. However concerns were raised on all sides because of a lack of leadership and strategy entering these talks. Meanwhile, tensions and violence are escalating in the region.
Bio
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson with the Palestine Liberation Organization. She appears frequently on international media including Al Jazeera, CNN, and Fox News.
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