It was Halloween night in Jerusalem, and Benjamin Netanyahu came dressed asrna peacemaker. "We're prepared to start peace talks immediately," the notoriously reluctant Israeli Prime Minister proclaimed, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton standing at his side, poker-faced. "I think we should... get on it and get with it."rnIt was a ploy, of course. The Palestinians were tangled up in themselves, yet again. They had elections looming, and their leader, Mahmoud Abbas, had to hang tough: he was demanding a total freeze to Israeli settlement-building on the West Bank-which was precisely what the Obama Administration had previously said it favored.
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