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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167539
Helping Abbas Climb Down the High Tree
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Public opinion polls published in the past few days by a number of Fatah-controlled media outlets are seen as an attempt to prepare local public opinion for the possibility that the PA will soon resume the stalled peace talks with Israel. PA officials said that Abbas was under heavy pressure from the Europeans, Americans and some Arab countries to accept U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell's proposals and resume the peace talks with Israel. Abbas "wants to resume the peace negotiations, but he doesn't want it to look as if he has succumbed to the pressure," said one official in Ramallah.