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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.564290
Abbas to Obama: I Oppose the Proposals that Kerry Presented
(Ha'aretz-Hebrew) Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury - PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent U.S. President Barack Obama a document last week in which he set out the Palestinian positions on all the core issues and outlined his reservations about ideas he has heard from Secretary of State John Kerry on security arrangements in the West Bank and other issues. Abbas hopes the document will influence U.S. positions ahead of presentation of the "framework agreement" which Kerry is working on. The issue that particularly angered Abbas was the idea that at the end of a 10-year period, the Israel Defense Forces would leave the Jordan Valley only if the Palestinians met the test of implementation of agreements. A senior Palestinian official said there is "a real crisis of faith" with Kerry following the positions he presented in his last two meetings with Abbas.