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wed. october 13 2010 Stralci dalla deriva dei negoziati diretti Haaretz report; Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu told the two European ministers, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, that he believes it is possible to reach agreement within a year, Lieberman told them that whoever says so is naive. Netanyahu made the offer in a policy speech opening the winter session of the Knesset "If the Palestinian leadership will say unequivocally to its people that it recognises Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, I will be ready to convene my government and request a further suspension," he said. Netanyahu's proposal met with swift rejection from senior Palestinian officials. "The whole world holds Netanyahu responsible for what is happening in the region, after he chose to push ahead with the settlement project at the expense of an advance in the peace process. Settlement freeze is a commitment Netanyahu should respect," Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told Al Jazeera. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior official of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, described the settlement issue as "an aggression on Palestinian rights and land". "What Israel calls itself is an Israeli matter that does not concern us. The two issues are not related," he told Al Jazeera in reference to Netanyahu's condition that Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state. |
