09.06.2012                      19.Siwan. 5772                      Beha'alotcha

Abbas:

Abbas offers dialogue for prisoners, arming police

PA president says he'll sit at same table with PM in return for gestures, but full talks won't resume without settlement freeze.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday he was ready to hold dialogue with Israel if it freed prisoners and re-armed his police, but there could be no full peace talks without a freeze on West Bank settlements.
"We recently told them that if Israel accepted to free prisoners and allow us to re-arm the police then we would again sit at the same table as [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu," Abbas said….