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PNA to redefine relations with Israel if Kerry's mission fails: official

(Xinhua)

20:04, June 20, 2013

RAMALLAH, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will redefine its relations with Israel if U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to revive peace talks between the two sides fail, a Palestinian official said Thursday.

"The Palestinian side is drafting its strategic plan to act on the international level or in regard to the relations with the Israeli side," said Jamal Muhissen, a member of the Central Committee of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

One of the measures the PNA may take is "stopping or minimizing security coordination" with Israel, Mussien said, adding such move would be a response to the Israeli army's daily raids in the PNA- controlled areas in the West Bank.

Muhissen said the United States and European diplomats put pressure on the Palestinians to drop its conditions for the resumption of the negotiations with Israel, mainly stopping the settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

However, there was almost no pressure on Israel, which continues building settlements in occupied Palestinian territories while Kerry is still trying to revive the peace talks, he contended.

For his part, Nabil Shaath, another Central Committee member, said the committee decided Wednesday to form a panel to draw up the Palestinian strategy for responding to Israel's stance "that rejects the two-state solution."

The negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians came to a full halt in 2010 over expansion of Israeli settlement construction.

Kerry began efforts to resume the negotiations following a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the region in March.

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