Mark Regev, a spokesman for Netanyahu, would not discuss the details of Israel's talks with the US administration but he said: "We want this process to succeed and to see the restart of talks.
"There are talks going on to see if there's a formula that will allow for the restarting of the talks that would cause the Palestinians to abandon their unilateral approach," said an Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the visit was not announced publicly.
With that move, Mr. Abbas walked away from the United States, after President Obama had played host to the restarting of direct talks, resumed after Mr. Abbas had previously suspended them in January 2009.
Although this is a climbdown by Turkey, after Cyprus blocked a more ambitious restart of accession talks, Davutoğlu said it was "a historic day" for EU-Turkey relations.
Speaking at the annual Republican Party retreat in Philadelphia, Trump said he added a last-minute clause that ordered the use of American-made steel to a flurry of presidential memoranda he signed this week in hopes of restarting talks with developer TransCanada to build Keystone XL and ending a delay on construction of the hotly protested Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.
Since then the News Corporation has been trying to scuttle the deal with the hope, some industry executives say, of restarting talks later.
Those discussions involving the two Koreas, the US, China, Russia and Japan, broke down at the end of 2008 and US officials say they see no point of restarting talks until Pyongyang shows an authentic desire to make good on its prior commitments to dismantle its nuclear programmes.
Even now, amid deep pessimism about ever finishing Doha, the Indian government is holding a summit of trade ministers in the hope of restarting the talks.
This evening, representatives of both Microsoft and the government said they remained open to the idea of restarting settlement talks.
