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Palestinian Preconditions for Peace Talks
(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) The Palestinian Authority has preconditioned further peace talks on a halt to all Jewish building in the disputed territories. In Israel's view, preconditions of this kind are counterproductive to peacemaking. Peace talks should be used as an opportunity to solve differences, not to create new obstacles. Both the U.S. and Israel made clear at the restart of the direct negotiations in Washington three weeks ago that Israeli-Palestinian talks would be conducted without preconditions. Palestinian preconditions had already delayed negotiations for 18 months.