“While Israel has some concerns, it will raise them at the appropriate time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement e-mailed today by his office in Jerusalem. He called on the Palestinian Authority “to enter into direct negotiations without delay.”
A senior Palestinian official said the Netanyahu statement was “not enough.” Israel must freeze settlements and accept the West Bank’s pre-1967 boundaries before talks can resume, said Nabil Shaath, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Netanyahu Accepts Call for Peace Talks Without Preconditions, BusinessWeek, October 2, 2011
When it comes to negotiations, the Palestinian Arabs are really big on preconditions. I cannot recall them ever offering anything in return, but when it comes to demanding unilateral concessions as a precondition to negotiations--no problem.
It's coming to them.
And UN economist Raja Khalidi will tell you that the hundreds of millions in US aid is owed to the Palestinian Arabs as well:
