It is land with people who not only never had any state and declined statehood offers during 64 years but also proved to be rather hostile to their neighbors.

Abbas breached the Oslo conventions – who else is to blame?

Abbas did exactly what Arafat did not for some 40 years, although he have had many chances.

You see, Oslo was a perfect stalemate, while such change of status creates momentum which will eventually lead to declaration of the Palestinian state in whatever actual borders/armistice lines/settlement fences so Israel has to install it’s permanent borders.

“Summit on Jewish refugees from Arab countries making waves in Arab media; claim Israeli deputy foreign minister’s initiative an attempt to demand compensation, play down Palestinian refugees”

See? An attempt to demand.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4269697,00.html

What makes you think that Israel won’t build a highway for Palestinians to use, as she did in many other places?

>Palestinians are not interested in a state of which East Jerusalem is not a contiguous part.

Since Palestinians have to rights to Jerusalem whatsoever, their view on this issue is of very little concern.

Indeed, why should Palestinians have a capital in a city which never was capital to any “Palestinian” state and was not even an administrative center since 750 CE.

In the Palestinian territories, on the other hand, together with the ow Judean desert, the E1-Ma’aleh Adumim axis would indeed disconnect the northern highland cities of Ramallah, Nablus, and Jenin from the southern highland cities of Bethlehem and Hebron.

More importantly, construction of E1 would cement the isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Palestinians are not interested in a state of which East Jerusalem is not a contiguous part.

how can you say “thus finally making the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State impossible.” and in the same article show a google map that gives a potential Palestine state the same waist line as Israel’s?