Israelis, Palestinians should sit down for direct talks with no preconditions:
The Israelis and Palestinians should sit down for direct talks ``with no preconditions,'' because a solution to the conflicts involving the two peoples can only be found by the two parties themselves, not in the United Nations, said a leading US international political consultant in an exclusive interview with Xinhua Thursday.
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 says.