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April 27, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/middleeast/collapse-of-peace-talks-leaves-israel-in-precarious-position.html?_r=0

Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks

(New York Times) Jodi Rudoren - When Israel suspended the stalemated negotiations on Thursday, it did so with Washington's tacit blessing. PA President Mahmoud Abbas has recently played a variety of cards in hopes of improving his position. He took steps to join 15 international conventions, threatened to dissolve his government, and made a deal with Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is widely reviled in the West. The gambles drew repeated rebukes from Washington. Giora Eiland, a former Israeli national security adviser, said Abbas, "by his own behavior, has pushed himself to be perceived as a very extreme person who will never be able to reach an agreement with us."

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