A little of what the Most Equal Comrade and Mahmoud Abbas discussed yesterday

This is who the MEC and Secretary Global-Test expect the Israelis to achieve "peace" with.

The MEC-Abbas conversation touched on various subjects.

There was the insistence on freeing terrorists:

Abbas expressed his concern about Israel’s freeing of a fourth and last batch of 26 convicted Palestinian terrorists on the scheduled date, March 29, saying this would “give a very solid impression about the seriousness of the Israelis on the peace process.”

There was the attempt to weasel out of the issue of Israel's Jewish identity:

Abbas further pursued the shakedown effort by claiming the Palestinians had already recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993. It was an attempt to evade Israel’s demand for recognition as a Jewish state. It was also untrue.
As noted by Alan Baker, a former legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the supposed 1988 recognition of Israel as a Jewish state by Yasser Arafat, Abbas’s predecessor, was rejected as totally inadequate by the U.S. at the time. As for 1993, at that time Arafat purportedly recognized Israel’s “right to exist”—but with no mention of its Jewish character.

That ongoing evasion has a simple basis: acknowledging Israel as a Jewish state would—albeit only semantically—entail an end to demands to flood it with “refugees.” It is something Abbas is adamantly unwilling to do—not even to promote that other supreme value of getting the convicted terrorists released. 

As is so often the case at the conclusion of meetings between post-American officials and various world leaders these days, the closest to a conclusive outcome was a mouthful of platitudes about "tough political decisions" and peace being "difficult."