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NAB’s 2nd act: way beyond securities fraud and RICO Related Topics World » United Nations » Israel » Israel's President Shimon Peres (L) meets actor Jason Alexander at the president's residence in Jerusalem October 25, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun JERUSALEM | Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:09pm EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres came to the defense of Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday after Israel's far-right foreign minister called the Palestinian president an obstacle to peace. "Abbas and (Palestinian) Prime Minister (Salam) Fayyad are serious leaders that want peace and are working to prevent violence and extremism in our region," said Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. "We must continue to negotiate peace with them in order to achieve full peace that will end this long conflict," he said in public remarks during a meeting with "Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander, a member of "One Voice," an international movement promoting a two-state solution. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who heads an ultranationalist party in the governing coalition, said in a briefing to reporters on Monday that Abbas was blocking any progress toward peace. "If there is an obstacle that could be removed it's Abu Mazen," he said, referring to Abbas and calling on him to resign. "He threatens he will hand back the keys," Lieberman said, referring to the Western-backed Abbas's warnings in the past that he would quit unless a statehood deal could be achieved. "It's not a threat, it's a blessing." There was no indication that Lieberman's fiery remarks reflected any change in Israeli government policy, and they elicited no response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has called on Abbas to resume negotiations, which collapsed 13 months ago in a dispute over Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank, and abandon a unilateral bid for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state. Lieberman's remarks drew Palestinian anger and condemnation by a spokesman for U.N. Middle East envoy Robert Serry, and from European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, on the eve of a new push by international mediators for renewed talks. Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for Ashton, said on Tuesday Lieberman's remarks were "regrettably not helpful to create the environment of trust conducive to negotiations." Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine Radio, "we consider this tantamount to a call for the physical assassination of (Abbas)." "This is criminal incitement. We called the American administration, we sat with our friends in the Russian Federation and the European Union," Erekat said. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were due to meet separately in Jerusalem on Wednesday with representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. Expectations were low in Israel and the Palestinian Territories that the indirect talks could lead to a resumption of face-to-face negotiations between the two sides. (Writing by Jeffrey Heller Additional reporting by Allyn Fisher Ilan in Jerusalem, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels and Tom Perry in Ramallah) World United Nations Israel Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (3) scottabc wrote: It doesn’t matter if its the ‘good cop’ or the ‘bad cop’ in the Israeli government. None of them have any intention of ending the illegal Israeli colonization of the West Bank at this time. Only international pressure and an end to the massive unrestricted aid from the U.S. will make them negotiate reasonably. Oct 25, 2011 12:44pm EDT -- Report as abuse billpr wrote: Abbas has Hamas, Israel has Lieberman. Its a wash. Peace is not possible. The only logical outcome is a second state, but no war.. Unless the other Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon) want to fight, there will just be nasty words exchanged for years to come.. As usual the Palestinians will be sold out by their own, who let them rot in refugee camps for 50 years and blamed Isreal. Oct 25, 2011 1:56pm EDT -- Report as abuse colindale wrote: The threat of Israeli-American nuclear & military dominance is the real obstacle to peace The intention of Binyamin Netanyahu, supported by American Jewish and Christian Zionists, is to control the whole of former Palestine. The illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel has been built half way between the major Arab towns of Nablus and Ramallah, 17 km east of the Green Line in the heart of the West Bank, for precisely this reason. It is to gain an illegal advantage in order to sabotage the possibility of any peace process. This settlement stands astride an important underground aquifer that should supply essential water supplies to the Palestinian community but instead now supplies 20,000 illegal Israeli settlers. Ariel was built with the support of Shimon Peres, former defence minister, to ensure the Palestinian West Bank is kept under Israeli control. Israelis looking for ‘a better lifestyle and cheaper housing’ are still being persuaded to move to occupied territory by grants and tax breaks. Netanyahu negotiates in bad faith. His Likud Party denies any Palestinian state. This is common knowledge, except apparently to President Barack Obama who, under the influence of the American-Israel lobby, continues to supply billions of US tax dollars to Israel each year together with shipments of F15/ F16 strike bombers, helicopter gunships, missile systems, cluster bombs, chemical and other weapons, guns, rockets, electronic surveillance systems and remote-controlled drones that can kill anyone or anything, anywhere, at the touch of a computer button. This is the brave new world of Israeli-American nuclear and military dominance in the Middle East. A vital region that supplies one third of all the essential oil upon which the major economies of the world, including those of the EU27 member states, are dependent. A world where Europe is no longer master of its own political and economic destiny but increasingly an unwilling subscriber to a foreign agenda. Oct 25, 2011 2:14pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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