Unfettered rein

Efraim Cohen has penned an article titled Why Middle East Negotiations Fail.
The approach to Middle East negotiations generally adopted by the international community bears its own seeds of failure. As a general principle, the party less interested in reaching a negotiated solution is given almost unfettered rein to impose stringent -- often unreasonable -- conditions before it will even begin to consider dialogue. Conversely, the party more willing to compromise in order to reach an agreement is expected to comply with the preconditions simply to get talks started. This stacks the deck in favor of the more intransigent party.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/why_middle_east_negotiations_fail.html#ixzz1y248ZxQt