Netanyahu: Israel wants peace, Palestinians don’t

10 November 2015, 10:39 pm

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Netanyahu objects to “something fundamentally wrong” in the peace process.

“Israel wants peace. It’s made enormous sacrifices for peace. I’ve made the two-states-for-two-peoples speech at Bar Ilan University, a religious university. Abu Mazen didn’t make the Bir Zeit University speech, telling his people, ‘Give up the ghost. We’re not going back to Jaffa.'”

“I did a ten-month settlement freeze, no one has done that before. I did harder things, releasing terrorists. It didn’t help. It didn’t bring them to the table, and it didn’t absolve me of the blame for [lack of peace].”

“What is driving the conflict and continues to drive the conflict is the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize a nation-state in any boundaries.”