A senior Israeli official says Jerusalem has rejected a French proposal for a peace summit between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Haaretz daily reports.
The proposal for the parley on the sidelines of a peace conference Israel has refused to attend was originally reported by French newspaper Le Monde, which cited an Israeli source saying Jerusalem was likely to reject the idea.
According to Haaretz, Israel told France that since it was not taking part in the peace confab it would not take part in a side meeting, the official is quoted saying.
The official is quoted accusing Paris of trying to engineer Israeli participation in the meeting and says Israel is open to direct talks without preconditions and not as part of the summit.
“If the French are interested in hosting, why don’t they invite us a day before the foreign ministers’ meeting, or a month after,” the official is quoted saying.
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