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Concern that the president is backing down from his previous tough position on israeli settlements because it s an election year or because of all the blow-back that he s experienced over that? yes. this is a president who marked his presidency by with his first phone duel president abbas made as the cornerstone of his middle east policy, a settlement freeze, even spoke out against home demolitions and quickly backed down from that. so it s disheartening that now in this election cycle that he seems to be moving away from this. if he wants to be able to move forward, that s going to be a basic requirement. at this stage, would accelerated negotiations with a date certain or some sort of deadline, fasttracking the talks, would that be enough to get the palestinians back to the table? i don t think. there are far more issues than simply a deadline or end date. particularly with the settlements. last month alone, there were over 5,000 new housing unit that the israelis approved fo ....

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