(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Quartet envoy Tony Blair is involved in intensive talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about economic gestures to keep the Palestinians directly engaged with Israel in low-level talks in Jordan. Blair has met at least five times with Netanyahu over the past two weeks. "A package is being worked on," one official in the Prime Minister's Office confirmed. "The idea is not for Israeli unilateral confidence-building measures. Rather, we are ready [to act] within the framework of a peace process that is working for mutual confidence measures."
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