The last time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was at Shimon Peres’s funeral two years ago, and then just for a fleeting moment.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (right) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left), as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington, on September 13, 1993(photo credit: GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS)ByYAAKOV KATZUpdated: