By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The Quartet has put together a plan to jump start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Israel officially accepted.
The Palestinians said "maybe."
Saeb Erakat, speaking on behalf of the PA, said that they will come back to the negotiating table only if Israel first stops all building in post '67 areas.
Erakat then said that negotiations must resume on the basis of the pre '67 borders.
Once again, the Palestinians have set pre-conditions to the start of the talks.
Behind the scenes, the United States is furious with the Palestinians.
Israel's far-right, hawkish foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has never been in favor of negotiating with the Palestinians. So when Liberman began shouting about Abbas' most recent intransigence, Israelis did not take him too seriously.
It seems that Lieberman was correct.
Anyone but Abbas.
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