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Netanyahu Steps up Opposition to French Initiative

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"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up his opposition to a French initiative aimed at reviving talks between the "Israeli" apartheid entity and Palestinian Authority.

"The path to peace is not via international conferences that attempt to force a settlement, that make the Palestinian demands more extreme and in the process distance peace," Netanyahu said on Wednesday.

Paris will be hosting on Friday a gathering of more than 20 countries as well as UN and EU diplomats to discuss the Middle East conflict.

The "Israeli" prime minister reiterated his call for "direct negotiations and without preconditions."
"If the countries gathering this week in Paris really want to advance peace, they should join my call to Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] to come to such direct negotiations ... There is no other way," said Netanyahu.

In a meeting with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls last month, Netanyahu rejected the initiative, saying direct talks with the Palestinian Authority are "the only way to proceed to peace."

However, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah dismissed Netanyahu's proposal, calling it an attempt to "buy time."

The "Israeli" premier formally suspended the so-called "peace" talks with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority on April 24, 2014, after Abbas forged a unity pact with Hamas.

"Israel" responded to the unity pact by announcing tenders for the building of 4,800 illegal settler units on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team