(Ynet News) Elior Levy - Top Palestinian officials said that while Abbas remains committed to his plan to seek UN recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1967 borders, he would like to have an option to "climb down from the tree" and find a mutually acceptable formula for restarting negotiations with Israel, preferably based on ideas presented by President Barack Obama recently. Some Palestinian sources said that there is a widespread sense that Abbas, having advertised his intentions so prominently, has left himself with little room to maneuver and may proceed with the UN gambit simply to avoid a loss of credibility. "We are trapped with September," said one official. "We don't know what to do after that."
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