(RECORDING) Erekat said President Abbas will tell Mitchell that if the United States does not succeed in convincing Israel to stop the settlement expansion, it will - in Erekat's words mean that no one in the Arab world will believe that Mr.Obama can ultimately convince Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

They can pretty much pack it up and go home, because everyone's going to think they're ridiculous, no one will believe what they say, and it's a stupid idea anyway, is basically the gist of this conversation.

他们就可以打包回家了，因为每个人都会认为他们很荒谬，没有人会相信他们的说法，这是个很愚蠢的想法，这就是他们当时谈话的大概意思。

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