'Senior official': 'No point' to Olmert - Abu Mazen talks

This is from a Jerusalem Post story on today's meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert and 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen in Olmert's Succa. A senior official said just as Olmert was beginning his meeting with Abbas that if Arab reports claiming Abbas had agreed to renew talks with Hamas were true, there was no point in continuing negotiations.The Prime