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US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, then the two men shake hands AP Television 2. Netanyahu exiting meeting3. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e1.  US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, then the two men shake hands \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e2. Netanyahu exiting meeting\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think we came out with the understanding that the US is ready and wants to apply its weight, so that the sides arrive at the launch of a negotiation and also when you're talking from a distance of two metrs apart and not through mediators, you see that both leaders see a responsibility to try to bring about a negotiation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Barak talking to journalists\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of Barak talking\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ehud Barak, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the president rightly judged that bringing the three leaders together or groups of leaders from the two sides will help melt the ice and increase the chance that really we will find ourselves in a few weeks in negotiations.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide exterior of the United Nations building\u003cbr/\u003e8. United Nations flag waving outside of building\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I would like to say in today's meetings we confirmed our commitment towards the road maps and implementation of this commitment and in return we requested that the Israeli side is obliged to fulfil their commitments, specifically the halting of settlement construction, including natural growth.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e10. Security gates and people walking outside UN building\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This situation, we confirmed it in our trilateral meeting, and here I would like to say that our position has been unchanged before, during and after the meeting. And will remain so.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e12. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When Senator Mitchell could not have the Israelis comply with their obligations stopping settlement activities and resuming the negotiations, President Obama decided to interfere personally and in our opinion this reflected a genuine commitment of President Obama to stay the course and we're going to stay the course with him.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway of cameras\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our positions were very clear before we came to the meetings, during the meetings and after the meetings  When we talk about an Israeli settlement freeze on all settlement activities including natural growth, that was never a Palestinian condition. This is an Israeli obligation emanating from the road map. And it's time, and high time for the Israeli Government to realise that obligations are the essence of international law, international relations, interactions between nations. Responsible governments carry out their obligations.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Erekat being interviewed\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Mitchell, US envoy to Mideast:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're now going to enter into an intensive yet brief period of discussion in an effort to relaunch negotiations.  Our aim is clear - to finally succeed in achieving our shared goals and to end the cycle of conflict that has done so much harm.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e18. Obama standing between Netanyahu (left) and Abbas (right)\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Mitchell, US envoy to Mideast:\u003cbr/\u003e\"But we do not believe in preconditions. We do not impose them, and we urge others not to impose preconditions.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of Netanyahu\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of Abbas\u003cbr/\u003eBristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiations on Tuesday, grasping a newly personal role in their historic standoff. \u003cbr/\u003eHe won an awkward, stone-faced handshake, but no other apparent progress beyond a promise to talk about more talks.\u003cbr/\u003eThere had been hopes for weeks that there might be more to show from the first meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since Netanyahu took office in March - perhaps even a dramatic announcement by Obama of the resumption of the Mideast peace negotiations that broke off over a year ago.\u003cbr/\u003eThat wasn't to be. \u003cbr/\u003eDespite months of effort, the sides remain far apart on a staunch Palestinian precondition for talks: that Israel halt all construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory. \u003cbr/\u003eObama has publicly echoed that demand to Israeli leaders - though the Palestinians noted with displeasure that he used the word \"restrain\" on Tuesday rather than \"halt\" or \"freeze.\"\u003cbr/\u003eChief Palestinian negotiator Saab Erekat said that freezing the construction is not a Palestinian demand, but \"an Israeli obligation emanating from the road map.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBoth Erekat and Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak acknowledged Obama's personal effort promising they'd stay on course with the American President and his efforts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe president hosted the two foes at his New York hotel during a marathon day of diplomacy on the sidelines of this week's United Nations General Assembly gathering. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was a high-stakes gambit that could prove to be a timely personal intervention into a decades-old dispute that Obama has made a presidential priority or a flop that damages Obama's global credibility on a broader scale.\u003cbr/\u003eObama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, said the president took the risk because he believes the moment is uniquely ripe for progress and because he felt an in-person display of his rising impatience could help.\u003cbr/\u003eSo, instead of announcing a new round of peace talks, Obama announced a newly intensified effort to bring them about.\u003cbr/\u003eHe tasked Mitchell with continuing to meet with Israeli and Palestinian officials while in New York this week, invited negotiators from both sides to come to Washington next week and asked Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to report to him in mid-October on the status. \u003cbr/\u003eThis tightly compressed time frame, even if not a real deadline, was designed to inject urgency into the process and \"concentrate the mind,\" said a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to more freely describe the private meetings.\u003cbr/\u003eSpanning over two hours all together, the talks found all leaders promising to work to resume peace negotiations but also often using language described as \"blunt\" and \"direct.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBoth leaders kept stressing with Obama their own priorities and fears. \u003cbr/\u003eObama in return emphasised a need to take risks and give up some things for a bigger goal, said a senior administration official.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Mitchell, Obama told the leaders at one point: \"The only reason to hold public office is to get things done.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNeither Netanyahu nor Abbas spoke publicly at the meeting site.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a moment deep in symbolism, however, they engaged in an unsmiling and seemingly reluctant handshake at the start of the sitdown, with dozens of cameras clicking to record the moment.\u003cbr/\u003eObama praised both Israelis and Palestinians for positive steps. But he made clear they haven't done nearly enough.\u003cbr/\u003ePalestinians, Obama said, must build on recent security improvements and \"do more to stop incitement\" - meaning that they must stop those who encourage or carry out attacks on Israel. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Abbas' Fatah government is severely hampered in doing so, as Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are led by the government's Islamic militant Hamas rivals.\u003cbr/\u003eAs for the Israelis, Obama praised their moves to increase Palestinians' freedom of movement and to discuss \"important steps to restrain settlement activity.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBut Israeli officials \"need to translate these discussions into real action on this and other issues,\" he said sharply. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the private talks, he also chided the Israelis for suggesting that new peace talks would not resume on the same terms as last year's round, in which the fate of Jerusalem was expected to be on the table. \u003cbr/\u003eNetanyahu now says Jerusalem if off limits for discussion.\u003cbr/\u003eAn Abbas aide, Yasser Abed Raddo, said that in the trilateral meeting Abbas restated his demand for a complete Israeli settlement freeze. \u003cbr/\u003eNetanyahu, in turn, demanded that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Palestinians argue that under previous understandings they are not required to do that. \u003cbr/\u003eNetanyahu also told ABC News that he would not accept the settlement issue as a precondition to talks.\u003cbr/\u003eMitchell seemed to give the Israeli side a bit of boost by saying that despite the recent months' focus on the settlement showdown, the Obama administration does not see resolving it as necessary to move to \"final status\" negotiations.\u003cbr/\u003e\"But we do not believe in preconditions. 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