PM: Israelis 'Frustrated' With PA Intransigence
- 9 years ago
At a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in New York on Wednesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his frustration with the Palestinians' continued refusal to enter into peace talks with Israel - and the continued assertions by the international community that the fault is Israel's, not the Palestinian Authority's.
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Many Israelis, Netanyahu told Mogherini, are reminded of "dark days in Europe" by this demand - evoking the rise of Hitler, when Jews were systematically excluded from European society and eventually decimated by the Nazis - and that impacts significantly on Israeli public opinion, making it much harder for Israel to hold a rational discussion on how to approach negotiations.
"We have decided to work together ... on concrete steps on the ground in the absence of the peace process in the Middle East and have decided to reutilize the Quartet's activities," Mogherini told reporters after a Quartet meeting at the United Nations.
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Many Israelis, Netanyahu told Mogherini, are reminded of "dark days in Europe" by this demand - evoking the rise of Hitler, when Jews were systematically excluded from European society and eventually decimated by the Nazis - and that impacts significantly on Israeli public opinion, making it much harder for Israel to hold a rational discussion on how to approach negotiations.
"We have decided to work together ... on concrete steps on the ground in the absence of the peace process in the Middle East and have decided to reutilize the Quartet's activities," Mogherini told reporters after a Quartet meeting at the United Nations.