The Palestinian president will arrive at the Oval Office with intent to reject the U.S. framework paper. Abbas has done in the last year everything to avoid a clash with the U.S. but his advisers convinced him that he too can say ‘no’ to Obama and fly back home safely.

The Americans, particularly U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, have been focused in recent months on Plan A: Achieve a framework agreement of principles for resolving the core issues that would be a basis for continuing the negotiations. Thus far, however, there is almost no clause in the American document on which the Palestinians and Israelis agree.

Kerry has demonstrated great optimism about the framework document, but apparently misread the situation. It is not clear whether he misunderstood things or simply heard what he wanted to hear. He thought he could nail this document last December, but three months later, such an agreement is nowhere in sight.

After Monday’s meeting with Abbas, Washington will start to realize that no framework agreement is possible. When that happens, the Americans will have only 11 days to come up with Plan B.

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