Palestinian analysts explained that the reason behind Olmert's decision to push forward the talks on the Syrian track is that because he wants to save himself from the probe he is facing in Israel that might move him away and create a real political crisis in Israel.
All the Palestinians, either those who are negotiating with Israel or those who oppose the direct talks with Israel believe that the results of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are zero.
Fatah movement's spokesman in Gaza Hazem Abu Shanab said that the Israeli-Palestinian talks which began secretly in 1974 and still going on in 2008 from worse to worst.
"The Palestinian National Authority experience with the occupation proved that the talks are intended to ensure the Israeli occupation's security at the expense of the Palestinians," said Abu Shanab.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, meanwhile, believes that the track on the Syrian-Israeli talks may not affect the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
"We don't want to forecast the track of the Israeli-Syrian talks but we don't think these talks may affect on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. In any case, there are no relations between the two negotiation tracks because in Syria the situation is different than in Palestine," said Barhoum.
Hamas believe that "here in Palestine, we have the Israeli occupation, the American support and a team of Palestinians, going with the American interests, affecting the negotiations and making them different than the situation of Syria."
"We rule out that the relation between Hamas and the resistant groups, in one hand, and Syrian, in the other hand, will be affected by the negotiations. It is because Syria is a state of sovereignty that knows who to maintain its interests and restore its land," said Barhoum.
