Israeli officials say they still suspect the Palestinians intend to let the proximity talks run into the ground and then demand that the Americans "impose" a settlement.

以色列官方依然怀疑巴勒斯坦方面试图破坏中间人主持的会谈，然后要求美国直接“强加”一个解决方案。

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During initial talks, Israel agreed to a prisoner release, while the Palestinians dropped their demand for Israel to stop settlement construction before talks are held.

在初步的会谈中，以色列同意释放一些囚犯，巴勒斯坦人也不再把以色列停止定居点建设做为谈判的先决条件。

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The Palestinians under Mr.Abbas are sticking to their demand that Israel freeze settlement construction before a return to negotiations.

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,speaking on Palestinian radio, said Mr.Abbas would tell Mitchell there will be no compromises from the Palestinians on their demand for a settlement freeze.

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They were expecting a much stronger intervention by Obama last year,in 2009, when Obama stepped back from his demand for a complete settlement freeze and this led Palestinians to feel betrayed and abandoned."

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However, having done this it seems only to have encouraged other to come forward to demand a settlement.

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He asked for our support and got it, including the agreement that we would not demand a total settlement freeze.

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Mr Obama's administration, perhaps overconfident, persuaded him to agree that it would demand a complete settlement freeze as the price for restarting talks.

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