Fatah spokesman: We “blackmailed” Israel to release the prisoners

PA's threat to have Israel prosecuted
at the International Criminal Court
is "a weapon... an important card...
We've been waving it around for two years"

Senior PA leader Nabil Shaath:
"Due to the prisoners we haven't stopped negotiations"

...Senior PA leader Nabil Shaath explained already in November and again in December 2013, that the reason the PA has not "stopped negotiations," is because the PA wants to first fulfill its goal of having all the prisoners Israel arrested before the Oslo Accords released.

Israel agreed to release the 104 terrorists from prison because it was the Palestinian Authority's precondition for starting negotiations at all. But Fatah's spokesman calling the release of the prisoners "blackmail," together with Shaath's statement that they are just waiting for the prisoners to be released before they stop the negotiations, indicates that for the PA, the current round of peace talks may have been a charade.