Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, speaks with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in Kuwait at the sidelines of the 5th Islamic Summit on Jan. 27, 1987. (AP Photo/File)
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, left, joins Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the start of a historic meeting in Cairo on Oct. 6, 1993. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Israel and the Palestinians will resume long-stalled direct peace talks in Washington early next month with the aim of reaching a settlement in a year's time, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.(AP Photo/Atef Safadi, Pool)