From Abbas spokesman hits back at Netanyahu: We won’t ever accept Israeli troops
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman, says the Palestinians will not accept the presence of Israeli soldiers in a future Palestinian state.
His comments came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli reporters on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly that under any peace accord with the Palestinians, Israel would retain security control from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
“We will not accept the presence of an occupation soldier on our Palestinian land,” Abu Rudeinah says in a statement published on the official PA news site Wafa. “We will only accept an independent and sovereign Palestinian state along 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
— Adam Rasgon
