Secondly, there is a solid consensus, held by all the Palestinian factions and militias, that the armed resistance will continue inside the occupied territories as long as Israel retains control of six of the main West Bank Palestinian cities.
And Mr Netanyahu still refuses to stop building settlements in the West Bank, the main bit of a future Palestinian state.
But that credibility has been fizzling at home and abroad, since Mr Netanyahu refused to meet the minimal demand of his Palestinian interlocutors (and of Western mediators) that Israel should stop expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the main bit of the Palestinians' would-be state.
Mr Netanyahu roundly blames the Palestinians for their supposed intransigence, an analysis not shared by American or European mediators and monitors, who castigate Israel's government for refusing to freeze the building or expanding of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the main bit of a future Palestinian state.
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Today, the Israel Defense Forces exercise effective control over the West Bank through the distribution of their forces in the area in a manner that enables Israeli control over the main roads and controlling heights of the West Bank.
It boils down to a trade-off in which Israel annexes the main settlement blocks in the West Bank (around 15% of the whole territory), while recognising a Palestinian state on 65%.
The real unilateral impediment to such talks, Mr Abbas insisted, was Israel's continuing settlement-building on the West Bank, which Palestinians view as the main part of their future state.
His Jewish Home party includes Knesset members from Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the Palestinians say are the main obstacle to peace.
In this new version, the fence will in some places move closer to the pre-1967 border separating Israel from the West Bank but it will still encompass the main settlement blocks, where most of the settlers live.
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The village, which is on the edge of the West Bank, contains a market of 170 shops and is the main source of income for Nazlat Issa's residents.
They single out the failure of the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah in power in parts of the West Bank, and Hamas, which governs in Gaza, to reconcile their differences and speak with one voice.
Faced with such a stark choice between the Israeli people and the Biblical land, Israel, he says, would choose the people and withdraw from the West Bank, uprooting dozens of settlements, though not those in the main blocs protecting Israel's border.
"The main aim of the intifada (uprising) is the liberation of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and nothing more, " he says.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli security forces are preparing to deport hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists expected to arrive at the country's main international airport beginning Sunday to protest Israel's policies in the occupied West Bank.
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