Israel must also halt settlement activity, which can be seen as prejudging the outcome of negotiations and undermining its negotiating partner.

以色列也必须停止兴建定居点的活动，这种行动可以被看成是对和平谈判结果的预先判断，会破坏谈判对手的信心。

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The pro-Lisbon crowd in Brussels will tell you that America fears Lisbon as the treaty that will make Europe a more formidable negotiating partner.

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It accused Assad of being an "unreliable negotiating partner" who wants "continued conflict" with Israel, and it asked the new administration "to revisit the premises" of U.S. Syria policy even though it appears to parallel Israel's own.

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But if Mr Sharon and Mr Peres have agreed, at least for the time being, to stop trying to delegitimise Mr Arafat, and to maintain his credibility as a future negotiating partner, what hope is there of such negotiations taking place?

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