RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday gave Hamas two weeks to accept a moderate political platform for a unity government, ahead of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Abbas said that talks with the ruling Hamas militant group on forming a more moderate coalition government have broken down. Abbas also said a new Cabinet must be formed to end a recent surge in violence that claimed 10 lives in three days. He did not elaborate. There is no dialogue now, Abbas said at a news conference with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa. A preliminary coalition agreement announced on Sept. 11 is over now, and we have to start from square one, he said.