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Palestinians Rebuff Quartet's Calls to Return to Table
(DPA-Ha'aretz) The Palestinian leadership says it will not resume negotiations until Israel stops all settlement activities in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, and recognizes the 1967 borders as those of the future Palestinian state. Israel says direct negotiations must take place without Palestinian preconditions. A document prepared by Israel's Foreign Ministry accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of "pursuing an increasingly hostile, confrontational and unilateral approach" which "has effectively blocked any possibility for political progress."