Benjamin Netanyahu Insists Ready for Peace Talks
Image by getty images
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a meeting with peace activists that he is prepared to continue negotiations with the Palestinians.
“I am ready now to go to Ramallah or any other place in order to meet and hold direct negotiations without preconditions,” Netanyahu told three representatives from Women Wage Peace at a meeting Tuesday in Jerusalem. The prime minister’s peace envoy, Isaac Molcho, also attended the meeting.
“We want to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians,” Netanyahu said. “The solution is two states for two peoples – a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the national state of the Jewish people.
“If you intend to meet with Abu Mazen,” the prime minister said, referring to the nom de guerre of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “tell him that I am ready to meet if he is.”
The group last week ended a 50-day protest fast held in a protest tent outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, calling on Netanyahu to sign a peace agreement.
The number of fast days was meant to represent the 50 days of last summer’s Gaza war. Participants fasted in shifts of 25 to 50 hours.
It’s our birthday and we’re still celebrating!
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news.
This week we celebrate 129 years of the Forward. We’re proud of our origins as a Yiddish print publication serving Jewish immigrants. And we’re just as proud of what we’ve become today: A trusted source of Jewish news and opinion, available digitally to anyone in the world without paywalls or subscriptions.
We’ve helped five generations of American Jews make sense of the news and the world around them — and we aren’t slowing down any time soon.
As a nonprofit newsroom, reader donations make it possible for us to do this work. Support independent, agenda-free Jewish journalism and our board will match your gift in honor of our birthday!
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
