Peace process: PLO ignores interview request
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Questions activists want answered are posted here
By Stuart Littlewood
The futile exercise reviving peace talks between Mahmoud Abbas’s half-baked puppet administration and the Israelis has come to a much-predicted end. It collapsed after Israel reneged on an agreement to release Palestinian prisoners, having achieved absolutely nothing. It should have collapsed before then under the provocation of Israel’s continuing illegal settlement programme. We now wait with bated breath for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s next step, if any. Perhaps even more lopsided peace talks while Israel’s relentless colonizing of occupied Palestinian land with Jewish squatters continues.
Seven weeks ago, in anticipation of this fateful moment in Palestinian history, I asked Dr Hanan Ashrawi of th...