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Herb Keinon säger i en analys av mötet mellan Obama, Netanyahu och Abbas att den tid är förbi när vi kan vänta dramatiska resultat från toppmöten. I stället är det nu små framsteg på det lokala planet som gäller.
Analysis: Building drama-less diplomatic paradigms
Eftersom levnadsförhållandena hela tiden blir bättre på Västbanken har Abbas tid att vänta.
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a seminal interview with Jackson Diel in The Washington Post at the beginning of the summer - one quoted again Monday by a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office on the way to New York - said he was in no hurry. He said that his negotiations with former prime minister Ehud Olmert had left gaps "too wide," that life was improving in the West Bank, and that he could wait until the US pressure on Israel led to the collapse of the Netanyahu government.
In short, he was willing to wait. And waiting is indeed what he is doing. Abbas climbed up a massive redwood tree, saying negotiations would not begin until Israel declared an all-out settlement freeze. And he has, so far, held on to the branches. Which means that the negotiations are not continuing, and the waiting game is on. "
"Paradoxically the waiting game also serves Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as long as - and this is indeed taking place - the Palestinians continue institution-building: improving their ability to govern, improving their security apparatus with the help of US Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton, and improving their economy.
There may be little high-profile diplomatic drama right now, but on the ground, there are changes. The story is not in New York, but in changes in the West Bank. "

Netanyahu och Abbas har helt olika uppfattningar om vad man kommit överens om vid mötet.
PM, Abbas draw contrasting conclusions
Netanyahu:
"There was a general agreement by all sides, including the Palestinians, to renew the negotiations without preconditions," he said.

Abbas:
"In today's meetings, we confirmed our positions and commitment to the road map and its implementation. We also demanded that the Israeli side fulfill its commitments on settlements, including on natural growth," Abbas said in a statement.
"As for resuming talks, this depends on a definition of the negotiating process that means basing them on recognizing the need to withdraw to the 1967 borders and ending the occupation, as was discussed with the previous Israeli government when we defined the occupied territories as the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem,"