Posted on 09/22/2009 6:41:18 PM PDT by TaraP
In what Israeli commentators said was a coup for Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters following his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that Israel and the PA would begin negotiations soon, without a commitment from Israel to a building freeze in Judea and Samaria, as the PA had demanded.
Tripartite Meeting Launched With Handshake and Admonition
Published: 09/22/09, 10:56 PM Israel-PA Talks to Begin, Without Commitment to Freeze
by David Lev and Hana Levi Julian Follow Israel news on and .
(IsraelNN.com) In what Israeli commentators said was a coup for Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters following his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that Israel and the PA would begin negotiations soon, without a commitment from Israel to a building freeze in Judea and Samaria, as the PA had demanded.
Video: President Obama's Speech:
"There was general agreement, including on the part of the Palestinians, that the peace process has to be resumed as soon as possible with no preconditions," Netanyahu said.
"The importance of the meeting was actually its existence - in this case this common saying says a lot, because there was no contact for half a year," said Netanyahu. "This meeting brings back together people who have worked with each other for years, who have a real ability to change the face of the future."
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It seems to me that it always must be Israel that makes all the concessions.
This is flat out wrong and unjust.
The Palestinians do not deserve their own state as long as they deny Israel’s right to exist and as long as they embrace terrorism to get their way. That is why they never got anywhere under Arafat and will not get anywhere as long as they listen to the extremists, the radicals and the jihadists in Iran and Syria.
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