By now it should be obvious to President Obama and anyone with half a brain that Abbas is stalling, hoping that the U.S. will succeed in pressuring Israel to meet all of the Palestinian demands.
ABBAS FREEZES MITCHELL’S BID FOR DIRECT TALKS WITH NEW CONTITION: INTERNATIONAL TROOPS
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Maayana Miskin
IsraelNationalNews
July 17,2010
The Palestinian Authority has put into the deep freeze American efforts to coax it into direct talks with Israel on its being recognized as a new Arab country within Israel’s borders. Besides rejecting U.S. President Barack Obama’s direct appeal for direct talks, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas now demands that international forces be placed in Judea and Samaria before direct talks can begin.
Abbas’s added his new condition in an interview Saturday with the Jordanian al Ghad newspaper. "Israel must accept that the Palestinian territory in question be that of the 1967 borders and with the presence of a third party," he said.
Abbas' new condition was made the same day he and U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell talked for three hours in Ramallah, where the PA leader held by his previously-stated determination not to budge from his demands.
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