Israel says it is ready for negotiations without any preconditions; the Palestinians say they will not negotiate so long as Israel refuses to freeze construction in the settlements.
Israel insisted on negotiations without preconditions.
Israel has been calling for direct negotiations without preconditions.
Abbas refused to resume negotiations without such a freeze.
Mr. Netanyahu called on the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume peace negotiations without preconditions.
It called on the two sides to resume negotiations without preconditions, which is Israel's official policy.
"Negotiations without armed resistance didn't work," he told me in 2000.
Bourguiba returned to Tunisia and was able to supervise the negotiations without directly participating.
Proceeding with ban treaty negotiations without states which possess nuclear weapons will not further nuclear disarmament".
But Mr. McCain is against any president-to-president negotiations without preconditions, which Mr. Obama supports.
Amram Mitzna, the mayor of Haifa, favors immediate negotiations, without conditions.
