The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister...

Only a week before Netanyahu"s visit, Moscow hosted Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement, the most radical Palestinian organization.

Moreover, Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas officially visited Moscow at almost the same time. Abbas represents the Fatah movement, which was previously headed by Yasser Arafat, and is considered more moderate in the West.

And in May of last year, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman paid a visit to the Russian capital. Liberman is a former Soviet citizen from Moldova and is known as a major hawk. Hence, all sides of the Middle East conflict have made their way to Moscow.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a permanent winter characterized by alternating short-lived thaws and, as a rule, ferocious frosts. The coalitions that have emerged in Israeli and Palestinian politics in recent years make a peaceful resolution to the conflict impossible, while resuming the negotiations interrupted

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