Israel: Failed Peace Talks Won't Bring More Violence
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The failure of peace talks with the Palestinians would not lead to an increase in violence, the head of Israel's domestic security agency said Tuesday.
"Even if the peace negotiations fail, we are not expecting a third Intifada," or uprising, Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen was cited by army radio as telling the parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee.
Cohen added that while there was a rise in Palestinian attacks against Israelis in 2013, most were from "individuals as opposed to terrorist organisations" and in part due to "internal problems in the Palestinian street," according to the Jerusalem Post.
Spokesmen for the committee and the Shin Bet refused to provide a transcript of Cohen's briefing as it was confidential.
Cohen's remarks come as the United States is preparing a framework agreement to set out the end game in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that resumed in July, and to guide the talks forward ahead of their April deadline.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned in December that he would resort to legal and diplomatic action against Israel through international bodies if peace talks failed to yield results.
And U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel was facing a growing campaign of delegitimization which would worsen if negotiations collapsed.
But in an interview with the New York Times published Sunday, Abbas firmly ruled out a third Intifada.
"I will never return to the armed struggle," he said.
05 February 2014, 04:40
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No I think it's a smart move by Abbas.
Because he is not giving Israel any excuse to fail the talks and blaming it on the Palestinians authorities.
But alas the talks will fail as Israel is pre emptively implying will happen.
05 February 2014, 13:04
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At the bottom of ALL terrorist attacks against Israel: physical terrorist attacks, political move(s) such as unilateral action at the UN, education of the following generations to hate/destroy Israel, the BDS movement(s) etc... there is only ONE issue which feeds all of the century old problem: The Arabs/Muslims and others, REFUSING to accept that the Jews got the legal right from the League of Nations to re-establish themselves as a country in the Jewish's ancestral, historical land including Judea/Samaria and E. Jerusalem.
The Shin Bet is talking about a developing facet in the process of attacking Israel which they notice: lately, more individuals attacking than groups. What Shin Bet forgot to mention is that those individual attacks have been publicly encouraged by the PLO in their ongoing fight against ALL of Israel.
Failed peace talks won't bring more terror. "Successful" "peace" talks certainly will!
