And it has announced that it will refuse to deal with Obama's suggested envoy to Iran, Dennis Ross, who is also a Jew.
For the West to refuse to deal with such countries would be as wrong as for it to put its agents in rooms where electrodes touch flesh.
In contrast, the Social Democrats refuse to deal with the smaller Green and Left parties, which at present back the government but are not part of it.
And if we refuse to deal with these issues today, then I guarantee you that they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.
At best, the administration hopes to offer support to Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian authority, and to refuse to deal with the more radical Hamas party.
You don't help yourself with other nations when you turn away from the global warming treaty, for instance, or when you refuse to deal at length with the United Nations.
They much prefer to believe that, when Arab leaders refuse to deal with Israel, they are merely posturing to get a better bargain a concession, an extra slice of land.
At present, Israel and America refuse to deal directly with Hamas even though it has recently won the mayoralties of a number of Gazan and West Bank towns and probably commands a third or more of the Palestinian national vote because, though it has more or less abided by a ceasefire brokered earlier this year, it has not disavowed violence and still refuses to recognise Israel.
But the President has no prerogative to agree to a deal with Congress on funding for those positions, and then to refuse to abide by the deal.
What if Republicans refuse to negotiate a deal on the fiscal cliff because they feel that any tax increase would do more harm than good?
If the Republicans quit, refuse to do a deal in the face of what looks like the president being so willing to compromise that he is damaging his reputation with his own party, they will look like ideological hotheads.
They then proceeded to refuse to answer any questions about the announced deal to sell the company at a price that investors find insulting.
However, in some cases the toxicity may be so deeply embedded that the only way to deal effectively is to simply refuse to engage.
With hedge funds now holding a proportion of the bonds and threatening to refuse to take part in the deal, the scope for negotiation may be limited.
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The constitution calls for the speaker to be elected before the prime minister, and Mr Hun Sen, apparently, fears that Prince Ranariddh, once installed in the speaker's chair, will renege on the deal and refuse to confirm him as prime minister.
We understand wanting reviewers to sign non-disclosure agreements (not a big deal, though we generally refuse to sign them ourselves) or divulge confidential information, but trying to squash all rumors and speculation about unreleased gadgets on user bulletin boards is absolutely freaking stupid and ultimately counterproductive.
Boarding early is a big deal nowadays for those of us who refuse to check bags and pay the extra fees.
When inmates refuse to follow the rules when they escape, deal drugs, or attack other inmates and corrections officers wardens must be able to punish and contain the misconduct.
It is this part of the deal that a number of Social Democrats may refuse to back when it comes to a final vote in parliament on December 19th (although, with opposition support, the deal is sure to go through).
They refuse to acknowledge that there is social breakdown in our country, and their policies at best deal with the symptoms of the problem and at worst help cause them in the first place.
Now that Congress has picked apart the deal they agreed with state governments last June a deal that, on any disinterested assessment, was already harsh should they refuse to co-operate in seeking a national agreement, as they now threaten to do?
If Republicans become obsessed with their agenda and refuse a reasonable deal, and the Democrats do not cave, the executive branch will be faced with an inability to continue its operations.
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