Obama's 'Palestinian' contradiction

Following @JodiRudoren's live tweet of the Obama - Abu Mazen news conference, President Obama made a statement that I've been waiting to hear for at least the last four years:


Obama: "If the expectation is that we can only have direct negotiations when everything is settled ahead of time," there's no point.
— Jodi Rudoren (@rudoren) March 21, 2013


Very good. So why does he say this three