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Netanyahu Says Palestinians Must 'Recognize Israel as Jewish State'
[An Nahar] The Paleostinians must "recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people" in order to achieve real peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday."The Paleostinians must abandon their refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to their national state," he said in a speech at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
Peace talks between Israelis and Paleostinians were relaunched in July under the auspices of the United States after nearly three years of impasse. The direct talks, which are being held in Israel and the West Bank under a U.S.-imposed media blackout, have been set to last nine months, and have so far yielded no concrete results. "The root of the conflict is the Jewish state," Netanyahu said, refuting the argument that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and settlement there were the cause of the decades-old confrontation with the Paleostinians. "Are you finally ready to recognize the Jewish state, the national state of the Jewish people?" he asked, directly addressing Paleostinian leaders, deploring that their response so far to that question has been "no". "So long as the Paleostinians do not recognize this right, there will be no true peace," the premier warned his audience at the Bar Ilan auditorium. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-07 |
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