How Can One Negotiate With Someone When They Immediately Reject The Conversation

Popular Front PFLP: Abbas acting alone Photo: AP When you start negotiations, you expect to have some rocky discussions, some disagreements over terms and hopefully an agreement that both parties can agree to. However, when your negotiating party condemns the process from the very beginning, you do not have a party with which you can do business.  So it goes in the Mideast.  Israel wants to negotiate however, it has no one party with whom they can talk and reach a mutually acceptable agreement. As the following article points out, hours before talks would start, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.rejected the talks.  This is not a positive event. We pontificated in an earlier post that the Kerry's peace negotiations would fail, this article tells us that we were on the right track. Conservative Tom Palestinian party rejects Mideast peace talks Hours before talks are scheduled to begin, leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine rejects negotiations, blaming US bias for past failures, opting for UN statehood AFP Published:  07.29.13, 19:28 / Israel News A major faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected new peace talks with Israel just hours before their scheduled resumption in Washington on Monday after a three-year break. The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that talks' resumption was a unilateral move by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas which did not have the backing of the PLO as a whole. Related stories: US confirms: Peace talks to begin Monday Israel raids Palestinian NGO offices PA against PFLP: 3 arrested in Nablus  "The PFLP is against a return to negotiations," said one of the party's leaders, Khaleda Jarar. "It is an individual move," she said, in allusion to Abbas. "These talks will be presided over by the United States, just like Oslo 20 years ago," she said of the negotiations that led up to the 1993 Oslo Accords for limited self-rule. "We went to the UN precisely to take our case out of US hands." The last was a reference to the Palestinians successful bid for upgraded status at the United Nations last November, which was strongly opposed by both Israel and the United States. Washington was to host preliminary talks later on Monday between Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat and his Israeli counterpart, Justice MinisterTzipi Livni . The last round of direct negotiations between the two sides broke down in September 2010 just weeks after they started. US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region six times in as many months to broker the resumption of negotiations.