(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon and Khaled Abu Toameh - U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrived on Monday for two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, even as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was coming under increased pressure from Palestinians to refuse to enter direct talks with Israel. Representatives of dozens of Palestinian factions and organizations on Monday warned Abbas in a statement that entering direct talks under the conditions set by the U.S. administration would "save Israel from the international campaign of boycott and condemnation." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has said he would not agree to preconditions to negotiations that would, in effect, determine their outcome before they started.
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