(Ynet News) Attila Somfalvi - Israeli officials said Tuesday that the Mideast Quartet refrained from releasing a statement after Monday's meeting due to Palestinian objections. The PA opposed a Quartet demand to withdraw their plan to declare statehood unilaterally at the UN in September. The Palestinians also refuse to halt all demands from Israel once a peace deal is signed, and oppose demands to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people as well as to modify their education to cease all enmity towards the state, sources say.
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