CHANCES FOR DIRECT TALKS SLIM
It is not only the militant groups, who rebuff the resumption of the direct peace talks with Israel, but also Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party insists that despite the AL Committee's decision to go for direct talks, the Palestinians won' t go for any talks before having certain U.S. guarantees.
Khalil Shahin, another political analyst from the West Bank told Xinhua that the AL Committee's decision left a narrow margin of maneuver for the PNA, adding "the decision throws the ball at the Palestinian playground and increases the pressure on it to go to the talks."
"I believe that the chances for going to the direct talks are slim, because there is a Palestinian consensus not to go to direct talks, while Abbas and his Fatah party know well that going to direct talks with Israel without any U.S. or Israeli guarantees, would be like committing a political suicide," Shahin said.
Before going to any direct or indirect talks, the Palestinians insist that ending the current political feuds and rifts between Fatah and Hamas, reconciling and regaining back the Palestinian unity would be the best recipe for empowering the political Palestinian position.
