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    Netanyahu pessimistic on Mideast peace prospects

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Peace prospects with the Palestinians are looking poor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after exploratory talks aimed at relaunching negotiations ended in deadlock.

    "As things stand now, according to what happened over the past few days - when the Palestinians refused even to discuss Israel's security needs with us - the signs are not particularly good," he told his cabinet in public remarks.

    Palestinian officials said last week an Israeli negotiator's verbal presentation on Wednesday of ideas for borders and security arrangements of a future Palestinian state was a non-starter, envisaging a fenced-off territory of cantons that would preserve most Jewish settlements.

    Netanyahu said he still hoped the Palestinians would "come to their senses and continue the talks so that we can move on to real negotiations."

    Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held five rounds of exploratory talks in Jordan, part of a push by international mediators to revive negotiations suspended in 2010 in a dispute over Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

    A Palestinian source said no more meetings were scheduled. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he wants to consult Arab League states on the next move.

    An Israeli official said Israel's approach to territorial compromise in the West Bank, captured in the 1967 Middle East war, includes the principle that "most Israelis will be under Israeli sovereignty and obviously most Palestinians will be under Palestinian sovereignty."

    The official said Netanyahu had acknowledged, in a speech to the U.S. Congress last May, that not all Jewish settlements "will be on our side of the border" with a future Palestinian state.

    The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital. They say Israeli settlements could deny them a viable and contiguous country.

    Israel cites biblical and historical ties to the West Bank, an area it calls Judea and Samaria, and says any peace deal must include stringent security arrangements.

    (Writing by Jeffrey Heller; editing by Tim Pearce)

     

    27 comments

    • BardnaDoire  •  London, England  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Israel have never wanted peace. The Zionist truly believe that they will rule the world. They missed the part where the Messiah came and told them that his kingdom was not of this earth. They need to be given therapy. I'm sure a place will be saved for all the pro-Israeli nutters on here.
    • .  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Twatanyahu, no one is listening to your lies.
    • chris  •  St Albans, England  •  1 month 15 days ago
      When you are a war monger like netanyahu no peace deal is desirable.
    • BRIAN  •  Edinburgh, Scotland  •  1 month 15 days ago
      The Palestinians won't accept extending the perimiters of the illegal settlements imposed on their land by the Zionist murderers. Shame on them!
    • Aine  •  1 month 15 days ago
      ".....biblical and historical ties...." Yet what Netanyahu and his partners in crime want is to be considered part of Europe with the same rights as any European state - in spite of these "biblical and historical ties" with the Middle East. Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too! What a ridiculous notion and nation. Bluffers! Israel's assault on reality is an insult to all intelligent people!
    • Odininasgaard  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Herodotus known as the father of history because of his research methodology was the same as is generally used today!

      His writings in 450 B.C. identified the area between the Med. Sea and the Jordan River as Palestine! In Roman Times the area was known as the Roman Province of Palestine Israel is not mentioned

      Palestine was a name used between 450 BC and 1948 AD for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the wider region as defined in modern times was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece. Cadytis was identified as Jerusalem. The UN General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it. Perhaps this is a propaganda lie by the Jews and that was the underlying reason why the Jews killed Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish UN peace mediator?
      Population in Palestine: Early figures may be unreliable and later census conducted by Jews should be accepted with caution.

      U.N. figures at the time show the Jewish population in Palestine as follows 1918: 35,000 1922: 50,000
      Even the early Prime Ministers of Israel were foreign born:

      The Jewish Immigrant Settlers in Palestine were represented from the begining of the founding of the mythical Israel by foreign born immgrant Prime Ministers:
      Ben Gurion: Born Poland
      Moshe Sharett: Born Russia
      Levi Eshkol: Born Ukraine
      Golda Meir: Born Ukraine
      Yitzak Rabin: Born Palestine from Immigrant parents, Father was an American Settler, Mother was a Russian Settler!
      Simon Peres: Born Poland
      Menacham Begin, leader of irgun who murdered 91 people by bombing the King David Hotel in 1946 Jerusalem Palestine: born Russia
      Yitzhak Shamir: Born Poland
      All were Jewish Settlers, in one case the child of Jewish settler parents, no connection to Palestine!

      Israel was created by the Jewish Settler Terrorists who ethnically cleansed their Semitic brothers the Palestinians from Palestine so the mythical Israel could be founded!

      50% of the Jews have entered Palestine the last 40 years mostly from Russia following progroms in that country which Boshiviks leadership was mostly Jewish.
      1948 1.900.000 of which 1.292.000 Palestinians and 608.000 Jews
      2006 7.000.000 of which 77 % is Jews and 18, 5 % is Palestinians and 4,3 % others, excluding Palestinians in areas nor fully occupied. The unoccupied areas excluding the illegal Jewish settlements contain 3.8 million of Palestinians and several millions are found in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon or working in different ME countries. The demographics between 1948 and 2006 indicates that the Jewish racial cleansing was much more efficient than the half measures allegedly implemented by Reinhardt Heydrich and this is by curtsey the American political leadership and taxpayer who provided the Jewish terrorist right from the start with heavy weapons for mass destruction of human life. Suggestion that US should stop humanitarian aid to Palestine if they turn to UN for recognition is outright impudent as it is USA that have paid for these carnage and supported the Jews in their wanton destruction in the Holy Land!
    • Odininasgaard  •  1 month 16 days ago
      Israel is the main obstacle to world peace, let alone peace in the Middle east!

      Israel never had any intentions to negotiate only to dictate terms that would lend legitimacy to Jewish tyranny!
    • George  •  Dublin, Ireland  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Gavin, Go learn about Bibi,,or netty,,He who says he wants peace.There is no bigger bungling ejit on the planet than bibi,He is a lunatic straight out of the asylum,Clinton used to complain that Bibi thinks he is running a superpower,!!We all know what Bibi is after and the rest of the world stand in dread of the price they will have to pay for Bibi,s antics.
      Old netty has been caught out so many times that everyone turns away now.that is everyone but the settlers.He is not even a credible liar.No wonder the palestine people are walking away and turning their backs on him.
    • Sola  •  1 month 16 days ago
      The Jew in Palestine is the big problem for the Palestinian people.
    • George  •  Dublin, Ireland  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Netty is not about peace.He is all about stealing more land and telling massive big fibs.He makes it impossible for the palestine people to live with dignity.Instead he would have them living in the camps in squalor with no water or electricity hoping that they would all die or go away,Thats his plan.Clinton could not stand the man,Albright said it was like talking to a drunk who staggered from lamp post to lamp post and even George W got a sickner of his arrogance and we all know what Obama thinks.
      Its about time the Arab spring decided to act towards Israel and put manners on Bibi.I we want to be seen as honest peace brokers then israel will have to stand trial for war crimes and the slaughter of innocent women and children in the camps.
    • igiveup  •  Cheltenham, England  •  1 month 16 days ago
      If you only knew how stupid you sound, Gavin, you'd put your inbred foot in your mouth and leave it there.
    • Odininasgaard  •  1 month 15 days ago
      Gavin you spout so much abot anti-Semitism however you forget how anti-Semitic the brothers of the Palestians, the Jews are!
    • Rich  •  1 month 0 days ago
      Where the Muslims are not happy.
      They´re not happy in Gaza.
      They're not happy in Egypt.
      They're not happy in Libya.
      They're not happy in Morocco.
      ... ... ... They're not happy in Iran.
      They're not happy in Iraq.
      They're not happy in Yemen.
      They're not happy in Afghanistan.
      They're not happy in Pakistan.
      They're not happy in Syria.
      They're not happy in Lebanon.

      So, where are they happy?
      They're happy in Spain
      They're happy in Australia.
      They're happy in England.
      They're happy in France.
      They're happy in Italy.
      They're happy in Germany.
      They're happy in Sweden.
      They're happy in the USA.
      They're happy in Norway.
      They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic!
      And whom do they blame?

      Not Islam..... Not themselves...
      They blame the countries they are HAPPY IN!
      And they want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from, where they were un-happy.
    • barry  •  1 month 16 days ago
      hmmm ... James D.. nice friendly peace-loving fellow you seem to #$%$ been examined for psychopathic tendacies ???
    • Albert  •  1 month 16 days ago
      This conflict will go on for ever.Both Jews and Palistinians have a right to exist in this terratory
      and as they cannot agree on how, then continual strife and warfare is the logical outcome. I believe most players and observers acknowledge this , I accept this will be how it will be
      for the years and years to come. All initatives are window dressing shows to provide lip service towhoever is stupid enough to watch and listen.
    • gavin  •  Marseille, France  •  1 month 15 days ago
      how come the haters of jews on this site scream the loudest and offer the least to any debate while spouting the usual ignorant rubbish
    • gavin  •  Marseille, France  •  1 month 15 days ago
      so sola the disbeliever learn something..................
      for 6000 years the israelites have been persecuted by one group or another. they migrated throughout europe and north africa.
      the european jews split north the ashkenaziim settled in northern europe as far east as russia the sephardim travelled to southern europe.
      before ww2 there were several million jews living in poland. today barely 5000.
      the tribe of ham went to ethiopia for example
      there was once a thriving community of jews in iraq, but not today
      their contribution to science business, medicine music literature is unparalled in history.
      their successes and wealth are their downfall simply because all others are jealous of this success.
      on the other hand the palestinian a name derived from philistine which translated into english means invader they are just that.
      descended from greek origin of dubious nature the philistines pushed their way into what is now israel and jordan.
      they invaded israel with their muslim neighbours in 1967 and were soundly beaten in less than a week.
      they are very lucky to have any land at all.
      thanks to the generosity of israel they have what is theirs today.
    • gavin  •  Marseille, France  •  1 month 15 days ago
      sola where do you get your hate from were you dropped on your head as ababy
    • James D  •  St Albans, England  •  1 month 16 days ago
      Why dont you just DIE, you #$%$
    • gavin  •  Marseille, France  •  1 month 16 days ago
      the only worthwhile thing to say to the anti semites on this post is
      read a history book
      stop believing what the bbc and british media tells you
      learn the facts before you all show your ignorance of history in public because you have not one clue what you are talking about.
      pathetic limeys