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Israeli and Palestinian sources have told Haaretz on Wednesday that the Quartet members gathered in Washington, DC did not succeed in making any progress toward creating a new framework for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority.
The same sources added that as the failure of the United States to create such framework becomes apparent, the Palestinians are more and more determined to pursue their plan to demand the recognition of a Palestinian national state within the borders of 1967 in September, at the annual reunion of the United Nations general assembly.
The sources close to the talks said that the reason for the stalemate is that the Americans tried to find a solution that would combine the recognition of a Palestinian state within the borders of 1967 with the recognition by the Palestinians of Israel as the state of the Jews.

Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton, Catherine Aston, Sergei Lavrov, Tony Blair

These ideas were outlined by the American president Barack Obama in May, when he spoke of them in a speech delivered at the United States State Department, and explained them further in front of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
As both parties rejected, or better said objected into annihilation, Obama’s proposal, the American administration decided that neither side was ready for talks.
As a consequence, the Quartet, composed of the United Nations, the United States, the Russian Federation, and the European Union, was assigned with the task of releasing a statement, whose sole novelty is that it announces the dispatch a team of senior diplomats to have a new serious of talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah, reporting back to the American president himself.
The first sign that something went wrong, or at least that it didn’t go right, was the delay in issuing a statement after the work dinner of the four representatives of the Quartet.

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The Russian defense minister Sergei Lavrov explained that there was no problem, and that an understanding would be reached and communicated to the public by press release.
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said he was ready to resume talks “tomorrow,” and accused the Palestinians of stalling.
Palestinians in turn said that no negotiations with Israel were possible anymore, and that their leadership was pushing toward the vote on statehood in the general assembly in September.
Last week, Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, was rebuffed while trying to explain the American authorities the plan of Palestinian Authorities, and their demands by the UN.
Palestinian say that by September they would secure 130 votes from member states, including the votes of some important European states: Sweden, Spain, Malta, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and possibly France and the UK.
European Union Members of Parliament however urge the continental body to convince the member states to dissuade the Palestinians from unilaterally proclaiming statehood.

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