"Abbas has finally understood that negotiations are useless.
In December 1940 he accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out negotiations as useless, calling for the US to become an "arsenal for democracy" and promoted the passage of Lend-Lease aid to support the British war effort.
U.S. President Donald Trump spent much of the past year deriding negotiations as useless and lobbing insults at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but recently Trump called the new talks "a good thing" and said they had been prompted by his "firm, strong" stance.
You might think that the debt negotiation is useless and is not an option, you are wrong, and here's the reason: Creditors most afraid of losing their money much less need to remove the debt from their books altogether.
But Mr. Qurei did say today that "the negotiations have become useless".
He said in Ramallah on Monday that from Hamas's point of view, negotiations with Israel were "useless" and would not lead anywhere.
And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.
Negotiation, sharing, politics are useless with such a regime.
While former Provos are quoted saying they failed dismally and it was all "a futile, useless waste of lives", those involved in peace negotiations admitted they focused on those using violence, given their aim of stopping the bloodshed.
Officials of Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that controls Gaza, said Mr. Abbas's declaration was a useless stunt aimed at continuing what it called fruitless negotiations with Israel, which Hamas does not recognize as a legitimate state.
