(AFP) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has laid down "impossible" conditions for moving to direct peace talks, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom said Wednesday. "The Palestinians have set three impossible conditions: that the negotiations start from the point they left off at the end of 2008 when Ehud Olmert was prime minister, that they be based on a total Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines and that the freeze of construction continue."
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