At the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, 6 April 2014
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
"In
recent months the State of Israel has conducted negotiations with the
Palestinians in order to reach a peace agreement. Israelis expect peace,
a genuine peace, in which our vital national interests are assured,
with security first and foremost. During these talks we carried out
difficult steps and showed a willingness to continue implementing moves
that were not easy, in the coming months as well, in order to create a
framework that would allow for putting an end to the conflict between
us. Just as we were about to enter into that framework for the
continuation of the negotiations, Abu Mazen hastened to declare that he
is not prepared even to discuss recognizing Israel as the national state
of the Jewish People, which we have made clear to both the President of
the United States and to other world leaders as well.
To my
regret as we reached the moment before agreeing on the continuation of
the talks, the Palestinian leadership hastened to unilaterally request
to accede to 14 international treaties. Thus the Palestinians
substantially violated the understandings that were reached with
American involvement. The Palestinians' threats to appeal to the UN will
not affect us. The Palestinians have much to lose by this unilateral
move. They will achieve a state only by direct negotiations, not by
empty statements and not by unilateral moves. These will only push a
peace agreement farther away and unilateral steps on their part will be
met with unilateral steps on our part. We are ready to continue the
talks but not at any price."
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