"Clearly, we've had a breakdown in leadership and have bureaucratic medical and contractual processes bog down a speedy solutiontotheseproblems, " Cody said.
"From our point of view, the boycott of the Palestinians was always an injustice and we have to find asolutionto overcome theseproblems, " Mr Abbas said on Thursday, after meeting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
And he believes -- the President believes, the Secretary of Education believes that the best way to deal with this is for people to address theseproblems by sitting down at the table to collaborate and work out asolution.