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tribunal would end any chance of reaching a peace deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu spoke to Army Radio on Friday, a day after the Paleostinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations said his government would join the
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if the UN Security Council refuses to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from all Paleostinian territories.
“We may end up there,” Netanyahu said of the prospect of war crimes charges being brought against Israel at the Hague-based UN tribunal.
“If Abu Mazen attempts it, this will have dire consequences,” he added, using another name for Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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. “He could bring The Hague to do it, bringing us to the destruction of any chance of a sane peace deal.”
Paleostinian representative Riyad Mansour addressing journalists after a UN Security Council meeting, May 2014. (photo credit: UN/Devra Berkowitz)
On Thursday, Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian Authority’s UN envoy, said that his government has turned to the Security Council “to force Israel to negotiate in good faith the end of the occupation within a time frame.”
The Paleostinian Authority hopes the council will adopt a draft resolution setting November 2016 as the deadline for an Israeli pullout from the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gazoo.
“But if this additional door of peace is closed before us, then we will not only join the ICC to seek accountability,” Mansour said. “We will join other treaties and agencies” to build evidence “that we exist as a nation, we exist as a state, although the land of our state is under occupation.”