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“Time: U.S. to Call Arab Bluff and Force Abbas to Talk”
by Arutz Sheva - Tzvi Ben Gadalyahu
September 15th, 2009

TIME: US to Call Arab Bluff
The Obama administration will use the “Iranian card” to help call the “Arab bluff” and force Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to resume suspended discussions with Israel towards establishing a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders, TIME magazine predicts.

Abbas has repeatedly stated he will not talk with Israel unless the Jewish State freezes all construction for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken the almost unprecedented step of agreeing to a partial freeze, a rare move in the history of the modern Jewish State that always has encouraged Jews to develop the country.

However, political pressures from within his own Likud party and from most coalition parties have influenced him to exclude eastern Jerusalem from the freeze and to allow the construction of 2,500 residential units that already have been started.

“If the Obama Administration accepts Israel's partial settlement freeze, it will be hard for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to refuse to talk,” TIME magazine wrote in its current issue.

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is to sit down with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday to iron out a path that both sides accept. The Prime Minister told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee on Monday that the freeze will be temporary, but that the United States and Israel have not reached an agreement on when a thaw can take place.

Even Robert Malley, who was an unofficial campaign advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama last year and in the past has met regularly with Hamas terrorist leaders, said that Abbas will cave in. "This has become a losing game and it's time to move on to final status, the thing that matters most," Malley told TIME.

What matters most to the PA is a new Arab state on its terms, but the Arab world, which vocally backs Abbas, also is concerned with Iran. President Obama’s aides previously toyed with Israel that if did not agree with Washington’s demands on a building freeze, the U.S. would continue to be “soft” on Iran’s growing nuclear threat. That card now has turned in the other direction “because Arab regimes have as much to fear from a nuclear armed Iran as does the U.S.,” the magazine added.

The next step before a formal resumption of talks between Israel and the PA is a proposed meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama and Abbas at the United Nations this month.

Renewed official talks would mark the resumption of a long and drawn out process, but also would be only the first step towards the critical issues of the status of Jerusalem and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and the Arab demand that millions of foreign Arabs be allowed to immigrate to Israel.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has said he would not resume negotiations with Abbas unless the PA recognizes Israel as a "Jewish state,” a definition that would effectively preclude the idea of flooding the country with Arabs.

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