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White House Trying to Restart Mideast Peace Talks Based on Obama Guidelines
(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - Israeli and Palestinian representatives have been holding indirect talks in Washington, with senior American officials serving as mediators, as part of an American effort to restart direct negotiations and thereby forestall a Palestinian bid to obtain unilateral UN recognition as a state in September, according to a source at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. The Americans are now trying to determine whether the parties would be willing to resume talks on the basis of President Obama's May 19 speech, which called for the process to be based on the 1967 lines, while postponing the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees until later. The prevailing assessment in Washington is that the chances are very slim.