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January 28, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=205392

Palestine Papers - U.S. to PA: Obama

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - According to leaked Palestinian documents released by Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, U.S. envoy George Mitchell told PA negotiator Saeb Erekat in October 2009 that "President Obama is not like previous administrations. In U.S. politics, there never was and there never will be a president as determined to resolve this conflict....So you can argue over words and delay indefinitely, so you lose the most important thing - this opportunity: the presence of a U.S. president completely committed to achieving the objective you want....All that points to the need to begin negotiations as fast as possible." "We won't have a perfect ToR [terms of reference], or perfect negotiations, or a perfect outcome. That's life. I understand the frustration and the burden of history, but please, don't let this opportunity slip by."

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