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(UK Media Watch-CAMERA) Adam Levick - On May 20, the Guardian published an article, "Donald Trump's peace conference will fail, Palestinians say," which stated: "Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has expressed open disdain for peace efforts." Though Netanyahu was a critic of the Oslo peace process, during his first stint as prime minister he agreed to significant Oslo-related territorial withdrawals with the Wye River Memorandum and the Hebron Protocols. During the Obama Administration, Netanyahu implemented an unprecedented 10-month settlement freeze to induce Mahmoud Abbas to come to the table. Several years later, during Secretary of State John Kerry's peace efforts, Netanyahu agreed to release over 100 Palestinian prisoners who had been convicted of violent terror offenses. At the same time, Abbas showed "open disdain" for the peace process in rejecting a comprehensive offer by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that would have given the Palestinians almost everything they wanted. Indeed, the Guardian has ignored Abbas' ten-year history of scuttling peace talks.