Thursday 23 June 2011

«Interview»: Netanyahu agreed to withdraw to the 1967 borders

Netanyahu wants to recognize Israel in exchange for the resumption of negotiations (Hazem Bader-AP)

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 Israeli political sources disclosed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during talks with us officials and Europeans agreed to withdraw to the 1967 borders, provided that the Palestinians agreed not to return refugees to Israel, but to a Palestinian State, with the Office of information service denied Netanyahu health news.

Maariv newspaper «» about political sources as saying that Netanyahu agreed to return to the 1967 borders with the exchange of land for the return of refugees to a Palestinian State and not to Israel during his meetings in recent days with us Middle East Coordinator Dennis Ross, US Envoy David Hill and the Quartet Envoy Tony Blair and EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton.

 The source said Netanyahu called for a resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians, according to this equation, recognition of Israel a Jewish State, agreeing to this equation derived from his aspiration to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel.


 The «Ma'ariv» the first time that reflects where Netanyahu agreed, based on the borders of a Palestinian State, to the 1967 lines, although Clinton attacked Barack Obama strongly after the last speech on 19 May the past due to its call for the resumption of negotiations based on lines 67 and saying it limits «non-protection».
Palestinian demonstrators fleeing Israeli bombs tear (Abbas momani-AP)
--Ross Hill and Blair Ashton made it clear to Netanyahu during meetings with him, they fear that the Palestinians in their quest and asking the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the Palestinian State.

 The four tried to find a solution to a September which Israel and the United States and European countries, and therefore demanded Netanyahu agree to resume negotiations according to see Obama.
The newspaper said the four diplomats were surprised when Netanyahu agreed to their proposal, but requested in return get things easy by putting these understandings to Prime Minister in right-wing Government and before the Israeli public, and request recognition of Jewish Israel on the return of refugees to a Palestinian State.

 And European diplomats were quoted as saying that Ashton emerged from a meeting with Netanyahu encouraged and hinted strongly that gave her something that can be used in contacts with the Palestinians ' first emerged which encouraged after talks with Netanyahu.

 Maariv said «» Netanyahu Envoy in talks with the Palestinians lawyer Yitzhak molkho, met this week with «» Arab delegates and asked them to affect Palestinian reconciliation between Fatah «open» and «Hamas» and slow down the pace.

 In contrast, in sources denied information service in the Office of the Prime health news «Ma'ariv», «Netanyahu's positions on this subject have not changed and are clear that Israel will not return to within 67».
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