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Launching Talks Is the Easy Part
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Over the last 20 years of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, launching talks was the easy part. Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were able to launch talks, as did Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas. They launched the talks and had dozens of fruitful and convivial discussions. But they couldn't conclude an agreement. The over-used mantra that "everyone knows what an agreement will look like" is empty. If everyone knew what an agreement would look like, it would have been reached long ago. The parameters are not agreed upon, and it is reckless to promote the expectation that if you just sit down and talk again, everything will work out.