You should have asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that, because he was engaged in that for many years. In fact, in the past, he said that he would go anywhere, at any time, to negotiate the final status agreement to form the Palestinian State.
Now just in the last 72 hours (or thereabouts) Netanyahu did state that if he were re-elected Prime Minister that he would not allow Palestinian State “on his watch”. But now we have those who are in the Netanyahu government and a close Likud associate of Netanyahu saying that they (the Netanyahu government) would be pleased to restart negotiations. And THAT was given after Netanyahu won the election and about 24-48 hours after Netanyahu’s statement (given just before the election).
My educated guess, and from knowing and following Netanyahu, is that he is going to restart negotiations with the Palestinians at some point (relatively soon) when the political climate is suitable for it.
So you said before. Personally I thought the negotiations were a big waste of time before, and would be a bigger waste now. You have two sides whose primary, bedrock, non-negotiable condition is completely unacceptable to the other. Now I think Netenyahu showed how he really feels and that just reinforces that Israel will never allow a Palestinian state, and the Palestinans will never accept an Israel. So I think Netenyahu did the world a favor and hopefull drove a stake through the heart of this whole "peace talks" farce that has been going on for too many years and through too many U.S. administrations.