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JERUSALEM — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israel’s idea of an interim peace agreement at a Sunday summit, a Palestinian negotiator said, insisting on an all-or-nothing approach that virtually ruled out an accord by a January target date.
The latest meeting between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was their shortest, lasting less than an hour.
Olmert entered the meeting in a weakened position after his decision to submit his resignation this month when his party picks a new leader. Abbas, too, is not in a strong political position, having lost control of Gaza to Islamic Hamas militants last year.
