Internal Palestinian Memo: Resist Obama Pressure--Talking Directly To Israel Is Political Suicide

Daled Amos
27 July '10

This to the leader who has been avoiding elections for a year and a half!

Those around Abbas are fighting the idea of direct talks with Israel tooth and nail: talk face to face:

A senior U.S. envoy warned the Palestinian president that he must move quickly to direct talks with Israel if he wants President Barack Obama's help in setting up a Palestinian state, according to an internal Palestinian document obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.

The 36-page memo, sent to senior Palestinian officials, advised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resist growing U.S. pressure, warning that rescinding his conditions for face-to-face negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be political suicide.

On the other hand, Obama seems to finally be applying pressure to talk directly with Netanyahu and stop relying on the US to do all of the work for him:

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