Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahi and Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon tell it like it is: Abbas just refuses to talk to Israel
David Lev
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News
9/20/2011
Let no one be mistaken, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Likud members Tuesday evening: Time and time again, Israel has gone out of its way and bent over backwards to get Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to the negotiating table, but has been rebuffed every time.
“We are a nation that seeks peace,” Netanyahu said at a pre-New Year get-together, a day before he is set to leave for the UN General Assembly, where he is to speak Friday.
“We have been attacked over and over by those opposed not only to our state, but to our existence. This is the basic truth, and we will say it at the United Nations.”
Netanyahu said that he appreciated the warm welcome he received from those attending the event, which will probably contrast with the far less positive reception his speech at the UN was likely to generate. But it didn’t matter, he said; Israel could not afford to make the concessions demanded of it by the PA and western countries.
Warning against falling for a peace deal hastily put together that would not take Israel’s security needs into account, Netanyahu said that “major concessions by Israel would probably be greeted warmly by world leaders, but in the end it would cause missile attacks on the entire country. The road to peace lies with direct negotiations, and not through detours at the UN,” he added…
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