The Palestinians have demanded a complete freeze on settlement expansion before returning to negotiations and reject Israel's offer of a partial freeze.

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Israel wants negotiations without preconditions and is ready to offer no more than a partial, temporary freeze on construction in the settlements.

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Israel's compromise offer is a partial settlement freeze.

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Private firms could offer a partial solution.

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The logic appears to be to get Israel to freeze settlements, the Arab states to offer up partial normalization and together this will somehow get Israel and the Palestinians into a successful negotiation on the toughest issues -- Jerusalem, borders and refugees.

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