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May 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Israel has released a joint statement saying it and Palestine are ‘committed to achieving peace’. The startling announcement came after an Israeli envoy delivered a letter from the Israeli Prime Minister to the Palestinian President.
“Israel and the Palestinian Authority are committed to achieving peace and the sides hope that the exchange of letters between President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu will further this goal,” a statement issued by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office read.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho delivered from Netanyahu to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Molcho and Abbas also held talks in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian government in the West Bank.
The contents of the delivered letter were not disclosed, though Israeli media did report that Israel had called on the Palestinian government to renege on its preconditions for peace talks to resume. The letter was, in fact, a response to an earlier letter sent by Abbas to Netanyahu. In it, the Palestinian leader laid out Palestine’s preconditions for resuming the talks.
The preconditions include ceasing Jewish settlement construction in occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, releasing all Palestinian prisoners, revoking decision that have undermined bilateral agreements after 2000 and establishing a free Palestinian state in its pre-1967 borders.
The meeting was the highest-level communication between Israel and Palestine in four months, when negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials in the Jordanian capital of Amman failed to produce any result.
It is unclear whether this latest thaw will yield any long-term results. A spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which holds power in the West Bank, stated that the organization’s executive committee will meet on Sunday to discuss what steps should be taken in response to Netanyahu’s letter.
US sponsored peace talks broke down in 2010 after Benjamin Netanyahu refused to halt the construction of Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory. The settlements are considered illegal by the International Criminal Court, while Israel cites its historical link to the land and say that the status of the settlements should only be decided in peace talks.
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