Palestine, September 07: Projecting a bleak future for Israel-Palestinian peace talks,Israel’s ultra-nationalist foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said that this generation of people will not see peace in the region reflecting the constraints of coalition politics that the Israeli leadership faces in resolving the decades old conflict.
Also indicating that the concessions and territorial comprises that are needed for the resolution of the conflict will not be able to attain peace agreement .
meanwhile,Jordan and Syria on Monday called on Israel to pull out of Arab lands and return to the pre-1967 borders in order to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jordanian King Abdullah II made a quick visit to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad and inform him about the results of the direct peace talks in Washington D.C.
Lieberman said “there is no need to extend the freeze… my party has enough power in the government and in parliament to ensure that no such proposal succeeds.”
Separately speaking at a conference of his Yisrael-Beteinu party ahead of second face-to-face meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, he said,”I agree that Abu Mazen (nom de guerre for Abbas) is against terror and will not fight Israel, but that is not enough.” “Abu Mazen will not sign an agreement with Israel.”
Abdullah joined United States President Barack Obama, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the six-way meeting that began last Thursday.
“Resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state vision requires the regaining of all Arab rights in accordance with the Arab peace initiative,” both leaders expressed in a royal court statement.
The Arab peace initiative offered Israel recognition by all Arab states if it pulled out from all Arab territories occupied after the 1967 Six-Day War, including West Jerusalem.
Syria and Israel engaged in peace talks, brokered by Turkey, in 2008. However, the negotiations failed as Syria insisted on the restoration of the entire Golan Heights, one of the Arab territories the Jewish state seized in the 1967 war.
Furthermore, Abdullah and Assad agreed to continue coordinating and consulting on all bilateral issues and discussed means of enhancing actions to cope with common challenges for the Arab nations.
—Agencies