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Israel: Palestinians Are Responsible for Diplomatic Logjam
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israel Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold said Wednesday that the Palestinians are responsible for the lack of diplomatic progress to settle their conflict with Israel. The first factor has been PA President Mahmoud Abbas' refusal to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "You can't have a negotiated solution if there are no negotiations." The second factor is Palestinian incitement and violence. The Oslo process of 1993 "was predicated on the assumption that the parties were putting their hostile relationship behind them, that violence cannot coexist with the quest for peace." But since then, Israel has had to deal with suicide bombings in its cities, then rockets from Gaza, and finally a new wave of knife attacks.