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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/41556/full/41556/palestinians-get-green-light-for-peace-talks/ <br /><br /> <b>Palestinians get green light for peace talks</b> <br /> Thursday, March 4, 2010 | by <br /><br /><p>Arab nations on March 3 gave the green light for Palestinians to enter indirect negotiations with Israel for a preliminary four-month period.</p> <p>The decision of 14 Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo might break the months-long deadlock over resuming Mideast peace talks, giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the political cover he needed to accept a U.S. offer for new talks.</p> <p>The United States has proposed so-called proximity talks to end the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians over the conditions for resuming negotiations, which broke down more than a year ago amid Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>Abbas has staunchly rejected direct talks unless Israel calls a complete halt to construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem — and he had been wary of entering even indirect talks without Arab backing. <em>— ap</em></p>

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