Islam Times - PA-Israel talks end without result: Abbas

Islam Times - Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas has said that the talks between Palestinian Authority officials and Israelis have ended inconclusively in Jordan.

After a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the capital Amman on Wednesday, Abbas said in a press conference that the Palestinian Authority would decide on the next steps of talks with Israelis during a meeting with the Arab League foreign ministers on February 4.

Abbas added that the PA is ready for talks on the issue of “security, on the condition that not a single Israeli will be on Palestinian land.”

Palestinian Authority representatives and Israelis held several meetings in Jordan over the past few weeks.

On Saturday, Palestinian protesters held a demonstration in front of Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah to voice opposition to the latest round of talks with Israel.

Talks between the Palestinians and Israelis stalled in September 2010 after Israel declined to renew a 10-month freeze on its illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.

About 500,000 Israelis live in more than 100 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).