Palestinian preconditions for negotiations with Israel have been changing so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up. Yet they all have one thing in common: all seek to rewrite the accepted rules of international diplomacy. The latest, unveiled this week, is that the Palestinians refuse to begin direct talks unless...
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