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December 15, 2011

Why Bibi Can't 'Get to the Damn Table'

Jackson Diehl, PostPartisan

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Abbas is simply unwilling to deal with Netanyahu, and his demands for Israeli concessions prior to talks - such as a settlement freeze in the West Bank and Jerusalem - are pretexts that have nothing to do with his real motives, or the real obstacles to peace.

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TAGGED: Palestine, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu

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