Palestinians sit tight, count down to end of talks

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Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Seeking to avoid taking the fall for failed Middle East peace talks, the Palestinians are simply sitting out the nine-month period of negotiations before they can resume legal action against Israel. Israel's settlement building on land Palestinians want for their future state has in the past 10 days prompted Palestinian negotiators to present their resignation, amid calls by officials to sue the Jewish state over its illegal construction. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told AFP his side is committed to the full period of talks agreed with Washington which will end around April. "We agreed to freeze all action at the UN in exchange for Israel's release of all the prisoners," he said in reference to 104 inmates, mostly jailed before the 1993 Oslo peace accords, 52 of whom Israel has freed as part of the US-brokered negotiations.

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