Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a Kadima ceremony in support of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority that no one should expect negotiations with the PA will lead to a decrease in rocket attacks on the western Negev. "I’m a big believer in dialogue with a group that it is possible to conduct a dialogue with. That group does not control all of the PA territories," she explained.
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Police officer Avraham Buchnik will face disciplinary charges for allegedly knocking a female to the ground and assaulting her during a march last summer from Kfar Maimon towards Gush Katif. The event was part of nationwide protest actions against the government’s Disengagement Plan. As a result, the female sustained a fractured sternum.
--Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrote in the London Guardian Monday that the failure of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to exercise authority after last summer's demolitions of Jewish communities in the Gaza area precludes further destruction of Jewish communities.
"I cannot envisage a situation today in which the majority of Israelis will support such a withdrawal. We were prepared to enter into bilateral negotiations on the basis of the road map, but to date Hamas has prevented the Palestinian side from following through," he wrote.