A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that peace talks with Israel are proving pointless and will not bear fruit without much greater pressure from Washington, Reuters reported.
“Israel did not commit to stopping settlements and we see the continuation of the settlement policy as destroying any possible chance of a deal,” said the aide, Yasser Abed Rabbo, according to Reuters.
An official in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on Abed Rabbo’s remarks, saying that both sides had agreed that only the U.S. should speak about the talks, Reuters reported.
[Reuters]