Netanyahu says Palestinians ‘have to stop kvetching’

Netanyahu lauds the “very able team” of US President Donald Trump working toward a Mideast peace deal, but says PA President Mahmoud Abbas is unwilling to negotiate with Israel.

“If you want to have peace, you have to negotiate peace and the fact is that Abbas refuses to negotiate,” Netanyahu tells CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

“They always got away with walking away becuase they’re basically pampered by the international community

“It’s a very able team that the president has, they have many abilities,” Netanyahu says, calling the Trump administration’s approach to the conflict “refreshing.”

“The thing that people don’t realize is that people have made their mark in the markets in the real estate field, this is not a real estate deal, but it does have real estate elements,” he says.

The Palestinians, he says, “have to stop kvetching.”

— Jacob Magid