Photo: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets US Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Ramallah, Friday. APFrom Jerusalem Post:
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas rejected over the weekend Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a precondition for resuming the stalled peace talks between the two sides.
Netanyahu made the demand during a meeting last Thursday with US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
Mitchell met on Friday in Ramallah with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other top PA officials, who urged him to pressure the new Israeli government to accept the two-state solution and honor all agreements signed with Israel as a precondition for resuming the peace talks.
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My Comment: So much for the two state proposal that President Obama and his team are promoting.
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