The multi-path signals could be classified into five categories, which are mainly based on the reflecting border (sea bottom or sea surface) of the first time and the last time.
For now, at least, that imperative has trumped even an offer by the United States to formally endorse a Palestinian state based on the borders of Israel before the 1967 Middle East war, something for which the Palestinians have long pushed.
The broad outlines of a peace agreement are well known and likely to be based on the borders of Israel before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, with certain agreed-upon land swaps.
A leading researcher at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), a research centre based on the border and funded primarily by the Wellcome Trust, is taking radical measures to stop the spread of the new strain before it becomes uncontrollable.
"We are very sad about this," said Maung Maung Aye, general secretary of the National Council of the Union of Burma, an umbrella group of dissidents and guerrillas based on the border.
But he offered no new initiatives and, tellingly, did not repeat earlier calls – for which he has come under fire – for negotiations to be based on the borders at the time of the 1967 war, with agreed land swaps.
Obama did not back away from his comments made last week about future peace negotiations being based on the border that existed in 1967 before the Arab-Israeli war that saw Israel take East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Palestinians say the Americans have agreed that talks will be based on the borders that existed before Israel's capture of Gaza and the West Bank in 1967.
In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Tuesday that analysts interpreted as the diplomatic equivalent of a declaration of war on the status quo, Mr. Abbas said flatly that he would request international recognition of the state of Palestine, based on the borders of Israel before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The Palestinians said talks could not begin without an agreement that would be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 war; the Israelis rejected that and said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not even proceed with talks without approval from his divided cabinet.
