Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold today insists that the French-led effort to restart peace negotiations “will fail.”
“One hundred years ago, Sykes and Picot tried to establish a new order in the Middle East. This was at the height of colonialism in our region. It failed then and it will fail today,” Gold tells journalists.
“The only way to make peace is through direct negotiations without preconditions, with the support of Arab states, and not through conferences in Paris,” he adds.
The French initiative will see the convening of a peace confab in Paris on Friday. Israeli and Palestinian officials are not invited to the gathering.
“If you have a conflict with a neighbor, you don’t travel all the way to France and invite Senegal in order to resolve it,” Gold quips.
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