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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040704705.html
Discussions, But No Decisions, on an Obama Plan for Mideast Peace
(Washington Post) Glenn Kessler - Senior Obama administration officials said there has been no decision to offer such a plan, either in the coming months or later this year. They said the administration, now locked in tense talks with Israel about making confidence-building overtures to the Palestinians, is focused on arranging indirect talks between the two sides. Israeli officials have long opposed the introduction of a unilateral American plan, while Arab officials have pressed hard for one. A major stumbling block to any peace plan is that 1.5 million people - almost 40% of the Palestinian population - live in Gaza, now controlled by Hamas, which rejects any peace talks as well as the very existence of Israel. That was not the situation when Clinton offered the "Clinton parameters" ten years ago.