PA Planned to Torpedo Talks Weeks in Advance

ARUTZ SHEVA By Ari Yasher May 7, 2014

Kerry hosts Middle East peace talks in Washington

National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen has sent protest letters in the last two weeks to the White House as well as various other Western governments, in which he argues that the Palestinian Authority (PA) planned the failure of peace talks.

In the letter, Cohen states that the PA deceived US Secretary of State John Kerry regarding its intentions in the talks. Haaretz published the letter on Wednesday, after having received a copy on April 22.

A 65-page document submitted to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas by PA Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat on March 9 is attached to the letter.

The date places the document three weeks before the planned fourth batch of terrorist releases by Israel as a “gesture” for talks, a release Israel decided not to conduct due to the lack of progress in talks, and statements by PA officials who said they were only talking with Israel in order to have more prisoners released. Days later the PA breached talk conditions by applying to 15 international conventions, effectively torpedoing the talks.

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