Dennis Ross: Palestinians Must be Held Accountable for Failure to Make Peace

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After the collapse of the American-sponsored talks last year, Jonathan D. Halevi wrote in a paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that the talks’ failure was the result of “a premeditated effort to participate in talks without the intention of compromising on any issue of significance to the U.S.–and thereby to reap the benefits of negotiating without allowing any deal to emerge” by Abbas. Abbas’ tactic of eschewing negotiations in favor of unilateral actions has been dubbed the Palestine 194 strategy by Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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