The United States may play a smaller role when Israel and the Palestinian Authority launch final-status talks, according to the Clinton administration’s Middle East envoy. “Permanent status is not something that should be mediated,” Dennis Ross said during a meeting at the Tel Aviv-based Peres Center for Peace. “They must learn to live together.”
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