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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem October 24, 2010. Netanyahu urged the Palestinians on Sunday not to take unilateral steps towards statehood, saying Israel was working closely with Washington on ways to restart peace talks.
Credit: Reuters/Sebastian Scheiner/Pool
By Jeffrey Heller
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Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:50am EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Palestinians on Sunday not to take unilateral steps toward statehood, saying Israel was working closely with Washington on ways to restart peace talks.
"We expect the Palestinians to fulfill their commitment to hold the direct talks. I think that any attempt to circumvent them by going to international bodies is not realistic and it will not advance the real diplomatic process," he said.
Peace talks that began in Washington on September 2 are in limbo over Palestinian demands for a freeze of Israeli construction on land they want for a state and Netanyahu's refusal to reimpose limits on building in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The impasse has raised speculation the Palestinians might abandon negotiations with Israel and launch a diplomatic campaign to seek recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations or other international organizations.
Last week, Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib said that if peace efforts with Israel failed, Palestinian aspirations for statehood should not be "held hostage" to Israeli consent.
"Peace will be achieved only through direct negotiations and I hope that we will return to this path with full force in the very near future," Netanyahu said, addressing his cabinet in public remarks.
He said Israel was "engaged in close contacts with the United States" aimed at restarting peace talks which the Palestinians suspended when a 10-month moratorium on housing starts in settlements ended on September 26.
Diplomats have said Washington has offered Israel a package of incentives, including ideas on security, to persuade Netanyahu to resume the partial freeze for two months.
"Our aim is not just to restart (talks) but to restart them in a way so that we do not stop in a few weeks or two months," Netanyahu said, calling for a year of "serious negotiations about fundamental issues" leading to a framework peace deal.
Palestinians say they fear settlements that Israel has built on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war will deny them a viable state. Netanyahu says the settlement issue should be discussed in negotiations and not serve as a condition for talks.
(Editing by Tim Pearce)
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Oct 24, 2010 7:38am EDT
If Israel is “working closely” with Washington, then who should the Palestinians work closely with to keep things on a level playing field?
The “settlement issue” will be discussed in any talks, the problem is Israel continuing to build them during the (possibly lengthy)talks, implying that any new builds will then not be returned to the Palestinians.
Israel wants to use the settlement building as a stick to beat the Palestinians with.
So I think it is fair that Palestinians use the threat of defacto recognition as a stick to beat the Israelis with.
There has to be a negotiation (not an imposition) with consequences for both sides if they start messing around.
As things stand,the Israelis are the ones messing around, trying to take something for nothing (as usual).
todonada
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Oct 24, 2010 8:24am EDT
Enough already of this infinite BS talks about talks about talks about….. By the time the Israelis are ready to sit down for real negotiations, there will be no more Palestinian land, it will be all stolen, gobbled up and settled by the Jews.
boreal
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Oct 24, 2010 11:41am EDT
if you dont want to loose land in war, dont attack your neighbours with the declared goal of wiping them off the map. if you want something that is no longer rightfully yours you can not expect to get it for free.
its not israel that should compensate the palestinians, but jorden, syria and lebannon. so far the palestinians havnt even been able to guarantee the most simple and basic requirement that is peace.
ben-noon
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Oct 24, 2010 11:42am EDT
Abbas is wasting time for no real reason. Israel has shown that in negotiated treaties Israel is willing to leave settlements, and has done so in Gaza already.
Abbas stalled until the 10 month freeze was going to end because he needs to look tough now that the USA has made prerequisites that he never did. Now he can not back down because he can not look less concerned than Hilary Clinton.
But in the end Abbas does not have the authority to negotiate or make concessions about land that Israel holds legally under UN and League of Nations mandates plus the Israel / Jordan peace treaty.
Abbas needs Israel so he has an excuse to stay in power.
Eric.Klein
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