[Reuters] Alistair Lyon - Almost a year after President Bush relaunched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Annapolis, sporadic talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have failed to bridge rifts over borders, refugees and the status of Jerusalem. Palestinian divisions have put any deal out of sight for now. Hamas Islamists seized Gaza in June 2007, leaving Abbas' Fatah faction in charge of the West Bank. Obama and McCain both stress how pro-Israel they are, but neither has proposed any policy shift to rescue the two-state solution from oblivion.
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