2010–2011 Israeli–Palestinian peace talks

Direct negotiations between <a href="/facts/Israel/dEe3IcaY">Israel</a> and the <a href="/facts/Palestinian_National_Authority/AhB1P7E7">Palestinian National Authority</a> took place throughout 2010 as part of the <a href="/facts/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_peace_process/bu9PhcfW">peace process</a>, between <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> <a href="/facts/President_of_the_United_States_of_America/oMsfmLb1">President</a> <a href="/facts/Barack_Obama/76wUMgL1">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="/facts/Israel/dEe3IcaY">Israeli</a> Prime Minister <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Netanyahu/581DW7MB">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, and Palestinian Authority Chairman <a href="/facts/Mahmoud_Abbas/FM332kkT">Mahmoud Abbas</a>. The ultimate aim of the direct negotiations is reaching an official "final status settlement" to the <a href="/facts/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict/JU7ynqCl">Israeli–Palestinian conflict</a> by implementing a <a href="/facts/Two-state_solution/qVur4GnX">two-state solution</a>, with <a href="/facts/Israel/dEe3IcaY">Israel</a> remaining a <a href="/facts/Jewish_state/EfkVGjWC">Jewish state</a>, and the establishment of a state for the <a href="/facts/Palestinian_people/DBnkAQ5l">Palestinian people</a>.
In early 2010, Benjamin Netanyahu, imposed a ten-month moratorium on settlement construction in the <a href="/facts/West_Bank/xzTTVNJl">West Bank</a> as a gesture for the Palestinian Authority, after previously publicly declaring his support for a future Palestinian state, however he insisted that the Palestinians would need to make reciprocal gestures of their own. The Palestinian Authority rejected the gesture as insufficient. Nine month later, direct negotiations between Israel and the PA relaunched, after nearly two years of stalemate.
In early September, a coalition of 13 Palestinian factions began a <a href="/facts/2010_Palestinian_militancy_campaign/AR373KFl">campaign of attacks against Israeli civilians</a>, including a series of <a href="/facts/Drive-by_shooting/QemS0FQw">drive-by shootings</a> and <a href="/facts/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel/Fpy1pCrW">rocket attacks on Israeli towns</a>, in an attempt to derail and torpedo the ongoing negotiations.
Direct talks broke down in late September 2010 when an Israeli partial moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank expired and Netanyahu refused to extend the freeze unless the Palestinian Authority recognized Israel as a Jewish State, while the Palestinian leadership refused to continue negotiating unless Israel extended the moratorium. The proposal was rejected by the Palestinian leadership, that stressed that the topic on the Jewishness of the state has nothing to do with the building freeze. The decision of Netanyahu on the freeze was criticized by European countries and the United States.

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2010–2011 Israeli–Palestinian peace talks