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Thursday, January 18, 2018
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
Senior minister: Abbas no longer a partner for peace
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEnergy Minister Yuval Steinitz, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas can no longer serve as a partner for peace talks, after Abbas’s firebrand speech earlier this week in Ramallah and another yesterday in Cairo in which he charged that the Oslo peace process was dead and that the Jewish presence in Israel was the product of European colonialism.
No diplomatic talks are possible “as long as Abu Mazen [Abbas] is the Palestinian leader, and as long as the moderate Palestinian leadership does not recognize the Jews’ right to a state of their own,” Steinitz tells the Ynet news site.
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