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July 30, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007604,00.html

Palestinians Hold to Preconditions for Peace Talks

(TIME) Tony Karon - "We can't want this more than the parties want it." Through two U.S. administrations, this has been a constant refrain from U.S. officials discussing peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet wanting it more than the parties may be exactly where the Obama Administration finds itself Thursday after the Arab League endorsed PA President Mahmoud Abbas' preconditions for entering direct talks with the Israelis. Despite strenuous U.S. efforts to cajole him into unconditional direct talks, the Palestinian leader is insisting on written guarantees that Israel will halt all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and that the basis of a peace agreement to be negotiated at such talks will be Israel's borders from before the 1967 war.

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