(USA Today) John Bacon - Experts see little chance for a breakthrough even if a face-to-face Abbas-Netanyahu meeting takes place. Elena McLean, a University at Buffalo, SUNY professor focusing on world politics, said, "The likelihood of successful talks is non-existent. Nothing has fundamentally changed since 2014." James Piazza, a Penn State professor who specializes in Middle East affairs, said, "It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of the planned Moscow-hosted talks. The legacy of failed previous talks by countries and world leaders with greater incentives to seek a lasting peace agreement than Putin fuel this pessimism."
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