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TOPIC: Abbas’ Threats May Throw ‘Direct Talks’ in Clinton’s Lap (Israel National News 9/06/10)

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Date: Sep 7, 2010

Abbas’ Threats May Throw ‘Direct Talks’ in Clinton’s Lap (Israel National News 9/06/10)	Permalink

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139532 Palestinian Authority officials continued to hammer home a hard line on its demands from Israel, raising the possibility that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be left holding the bag in the next round of talks in Egypt next week. Despite PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ tough talk last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and his advisors carefully choreographed talks with him and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu without a hitch. However, the only substantial outcome was an agreement for a new round of discussions, this time to be overseen by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt next week. Key issues--the building freeze against new Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, the status of Jerusalem and recognizing Israel as a Jewish state--were not publicly discussed in Washington. Abbas and Netanyahu couched their positions in polite diplomatic language, but PA leaders have made it clear the past two days they are determined as ever that Israel meet all of their conditions for talks for a new Arab country headed by the PA. Abbas told the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper Monday he would "pack my bags and leave” before compromising on the borders of a future PA state. He also left no room for discussion on the Arab demand that Israel allow several million Arabs living in foreign countries to move to Israel on the basis of ancestral claims. Whereas Obama’s officials lined up support from Jordan and Egypt for the talks in Washington, Clinton will have to face a growing hard-line stand by Egypt, whose Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on Monday rejected Israel’s insistence that the country be recognized as a Jewish State. He that such a definition would leave Israeli Arabs facing the danger of expulsion. Jews living in Judea and Samaria would be expelled in a future PA-controlled state. The PA would not "accept any Israeli presence, whether civilian or military, on the Palestinian territories," Abbas declared. In contrast to the PA hard line, Prime Minister Netanyahu played the role of statesman Monday, telling visiting U.S. Congressmen that he is worried that Abbas will carry out his threat to stop the talks if his demands are not met. __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

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