Hillary's World

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told President Barack Obama today that it’s still premature to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Repeated meetings with Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab officials with Obama’s special envoy, former Senator George Mitchell, haven’t cleared several obstacles to resuming talks, Clinton told the president, according to an administration official who provided a summary of the White House session.

The Palestinians need to do more to stop incitement and prevent terror, and Israel, while it has expressed a willingness to curtail settlement activity, needs to do more to improve the lives of the Palestinians, the official said Clinton told Obama.

Clinton was at the White House to give Obama a progress report that he requested after the president brought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas together in New York Sept. 22.

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