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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/09/08/2010-09-08_roadblock_to_peace.html
Roadblock to Peace: Palestinian Leader Abbas Already Balking at Real Negotiations
(New York Daily News) Editorial - Faster than you can say "two-state solution," the direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks begun with such fanfare have hit their first huge obstacle: an utter unwillingness to budge on the part of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Four days after meeting President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the White House, Abbas told an Arabic West Bank newspaper he is not prepared to give. Not even an inch. Abbas declared: "If they demand concessions on the rights of the refugees or the 1967 borders, I will quit. I can't allow myself to make even one concession." How do you negotiate with someone who proclaims his intransigence?