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In focus after Sunday's Cabinet session in Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's outright rejection of the Board of Peace's 15-point Gaza proposal, a development that widens the gap between Israel's disarmament-first condition and the roadmap that Hamas says it still supports.
Netanyahu told ministers the Israel Defense Forces will not pull back from Gaza until Hamas surrenders every weapon it holds.
The next confirmable milestone is whether the United States can reconcile Netanyahu's sequencing demand with the framework mediators agreed with Hamas representatives in Cairo ten days ago.
The disarmament condition Netanyahu is drawing Netanyahu did not leave room for interpretation.
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