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Palestinian Negotiating Team Hasn't Quit
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh and Herb Keinon - PA officials denied over the weekend that members of its negotiating team in talks with Israel had resigned. (See "Palestinians in Peace Talks with Israel Offer Resignations," New York Times, Oct. 31, 2013.) Israeli officials, meanwhile, took the reports in stride. "To be frank," one official said, "this has for too long been the standard operating procedure for the Palestinians: 'Unless we get what we want, we will jump off the cliff, dismantle the PA, renounce the Oslo Accords, resign.' This is the way they conduct brinkmanship negotiations." Instead of "playing games," the official said, "they should negotiate seriously." Secretary of State John Kerry is expected in Israel on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem and President Abbas in Bethlehem.