The U.S. ambassador to Israel said Washington would decide within a “matter of days” whether it would continue to advance its proposals aimed at breaking the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The decision will be based on “whether there is going to be an agreement or not,” Edward Walker told reporters. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai warned that any further delay by his government to decide on the scope of a further West Bank redeployment could spark Palestinian violence.
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