Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says UN resolutions imposed from outside will not lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
At a joint press conference with French FM Laurent Fabius, Netanyahu says “peace will only come from direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions. It will not come from UN resolutions that are sought to be imposed from the outside.
“A peace that isn’t anchored in iron-clad security arrangements on the ground, in which Israel can defend itself, such a peace will simply not survive and we will not agree to it. Our concerns are not pretexts or excuses. They are genuine. A peace deal that ignores these realities will be swept away by the winds of extremism and violence that blow throughout the Middle East,” Netanyahu continues.
The conference comes after a meeting between the two in which a French peace proposal, which seeks a UNSC resolution with an 18-month time-frame for an agreement, was discussed.
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