It sort of looks like Netanyahu is getting ready to RESTART NEGOTIATIONS with the Palestinian Authority opinion regards to a Two-State Solution (namely the Oslo Accords and subsequent agreements from 20 years ago).
It looks like that is going to start up again, in spite of the announcement that Netanyahu made just prior to the election, saying that if he was re-elected as Prime Minister, he would never allow a Palestinian State.
I think that campaign promise is history ... :-) ... but it did get him re-elected!
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PA: Negotiations ‘Only on Two-State Solution’ Basis [Netanyahu & Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3269435/posts
The PA officially announced Wednesday night that it was hoping to renew talks with Israel, regardless of who was Prime Minister.
After earlier reports said that the Palestinian Authority was considering suspending all security cooperation with Israel in the wake of Binyamin Netanyahu’s reelection, the PA officially announced Wednesday night that it was hoping to renew talks with Israel, regardless of who was Prime Minister.
Nabil Abu-Rudeineh, the PA’s official spokesperson, said that the PA has “no interest in the disposition of Israel’s Prime Minister. The only thing we are interested in from any Israeli government is the recognition and acceptance of the two-state solution, with Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.”
At a press conference in Ramallah, Abu-Rudeineh said that acceptance of the two state solution was the only basis of negotiation with Israel.
Apparently the Arabs don’t believe Netanyahu’s campaign promise ...
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Netanyahu remarks on Palestinian state ‘electioneering’: Arabi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3000833/Netanyahu-remarks-Palestinian-state-electioneering-Arab-League.html
The Arab League chief dismissed Wednesday as electioneering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to rule out a Palestinian state if reelected, saying there would be global pressure for a peace deal.
Netanyahu, whose Likud party won 30 seats in the 120-member parliament in Tuesday’s vote, had pledged to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and block creation of a Palestinian state if reelected.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi put the premier’s statements down to “electioneering”.
“I believe personally that he made that statement about... no two states to gain the votes of the extremists, particularly those Russian immigrants who went to Israel in the last 10, 15 years,” Arabi said.
Netanyahu, when asked by an Israeli interviewer if he would not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, had responded: “Indeed.”
But Arabi said he expected stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which broke down last year amid mutual recriminations, to resume after the next Israeli government is formed.