Let me just make one more comment about the prospects for a serious peace negotiation.

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The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.

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"The experience of that conflict made me learn and grow up and believe in negotiation and peace, " she says.

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Only later would there be negotiation on a permanent peace.

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"The Iranian nation is prepared to enter into dialogue and negotiation in order to lay the ground for lasting peace and regionally inspired and generated stability for the region and beyond and the continued progress and prosperity of the nations of the region and the world, " one passage states.

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In his meeting with Mr Obama, Mr Netanyahu said direct negotiation was the only way to achieve a stable Middle East peace.

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If Mr Barak can bring home the draft peace agreement that eluded him and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, or even a less ambitious accord, providing Palestinian statehood but leaving the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees for further negotiation, the election would become, in effect, the referendum on peace that he promised.

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Officials counter that the law is the fruit of a political negotiation in the midst of continuing conflict, and that it represents an advance on many past peace processes.

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