Israel to resist attempts to impose peace with PalestineIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at an international conference in the Israeli city of Herzliya that he will resist any initiatives to impose solutions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the outside.He accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the systematic sabotage of the peace dialogue and called on him to return to negotiations without preconditions. "The Palestinians refuse to negotiate. They refuse to negotiate and then get international pressure, sanctions, boycotts on Israel for there not being negotiations. It’s a perfect catch-22," Netanyahu said."And there are those who attempt to impose terms on Israel in the Security Council because there are no talks ... The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work anyway, but what it guarantees is, one, we’ll resist it, two, the Palestinians will not come to the table. Because if they can get starting terms that are unacceptable to any Israeli government and from which they can press their charges even more, why should they come to negotiate?" RIA Novosti cited him as saying.According to Netanyahu, the settlement of the conflict is possible only through "laborious, serious, deep negotiations". "The solution as I see it is a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at an international conference in the Israeli city of Herzliya that he will resist any initiatives to impose solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the outside.
He accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of systematic sabotage of the peace dialogue and called on him to return to negotiations without preconditions. "The Palestinians refuse to negotiate. They refuse to negotiate and then get international pressure, sanctions, boycotts on Israel for there not being negotiations. It’s a perfect catch-22," Netanyahu said.
"And there are those who attempt to impose terms on Israel in the Security Council because there are no talks ... The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work anyway, but what it guarantees is: one – we’ll resist it, two – the Palestinians will not come to the table. Because if they can get starting terms that are unacceptable to any Israeli government and from which they can press their charges even more, why should they come to negotiate?" RIA Novosti cited him as saying.
According to Netanyahu, the settlement of the conflict is possible only through "laborious, serious, deep negotiations." "The solution, as I see it, is a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state," he said.
