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Fueled by White House success, Netanyahu heads to UN
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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for talks Wednesday with UN chief Ban Ki-moon, saying he could perform miracles to hammer out a peace deal if all sides come together.
After his warm White House talks with US President Barack Obama, Netanyahu told ABC television he wanted to reach an agreement acceptable to Israelis with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
"We want president Abbas to grasp my hand, get into a room, shake it, sit down and negotiate a final settlement of peace between Israel and the Palestinians," he told the US news channel.
He added he was confident a Middle East peace deal, which has eluded successive Israeli, Palestinian and US leaders for decades, could be struck.
"Don't be so skeptical," Netanyahu said. "Raise your hopes. It's summer time and we can perform miracles if we set our sights to them."
Israel was Wednesday hailing a new chapter of warm ties with the United States after the upbeat summit between Netanyahu and Obama.
"A president now working with the premier, not against him," thrilled the right-wing Jerusalem Post. "This time, publicly at least, there were none of the harsh demands, none of the hectoring, none of the patronizing."
But the Israeli premier may find the UN secretary general less forthcoming.
Ban said Tuesday that while Israel's easing of its four-year blockade of the Gaza Strip was welcome, more needed to be done to ease Palestinian hardships.
His spokesman noted that Ban has long called for "a significant shift in strategy" to meet the needs of Gaza's population.
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"Further steps must now follow to meet those needs and to allow the United Nations to accelerate and expand its efforts," the spokesman said.
The UN chief has demanded Israel lift its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, imposed in the wake of the election victory by Hamas Islamic militants who now control the Palestinian territory.
Israel has so far given the go-ahead for the international community to import construction materials into Gaza. And Netanyahu said Wednesday further steps were under consideration.
"There are more things we are prepared to do... There are things like additional easing of movements, some questions of economic projects," Netanyahu told ABC. "There are quite a few. The point is we are prepared to do them."
The change in policy was triggered by the international condemnation of an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla trying to break the blockade that led to the deaths of nine Turkish activists on May 31.
Israel has set up a commission of inquiry into the events with the participation of British and Canadian observers, but some nations are calling at the United Nations for a fuller international probe.
After Tuesday's White House meeting, Obama said he hoped for direct peace talks to start before the end of September when an Israeli freeze on settlement building is due to expire.
"I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu wants peace. I think he's willing to take risks for peace," Obama told reporters.
He also disputed suggestions that he had distanced the United States from Israel, sharing a prolonged handshake with the visiting Israeli leader for the cameras.
Before leaving Washington, Netanyahu underscored security concerns that would need to be addressed in peace initiatives, in talks with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The officials traveling with the prime minister said Netanyahu told Gates that in eventual direct peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel would want assurances that a Palestinian state would not be able to smuggle in heavy weaponry such as rockets.
The officials said that Netanyahu also told Gates that he feared that once US troops leave Iraq, Israel could once again face threats from the east for the first time in the past decade.
The officials said that Netanyahu had also discussed with Gates the possibility of Israel buying unspecified "defense products" from the United States in order to maintain its strategic advantage over its Middle East neighbors.
Late Wednesday, Netanyahu will address Jewish leaders in New York and on Thursday he gives a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations and meets with former president Bill Clinton.
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