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Abbas: Rejecting '47 Partition a 'Mistake'

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In rare interview on Israeli TV.

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An olive branch from Mahmoud Abbas? In a rare interview on Israeli television, the Palestinian President said the Arab refusal of the U.N.'s proposed 1947 partition of Palestine into two states was a mistake.

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