Tag: Israel-Palestine conflict

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Palestinians ready for negotiations if Israel freezes construction of settlements

  

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas repeated his refusal to talk with Israel without a settlement freeze after international mediators, responding to his United Nations bid for statehood, urged negotiations within a month.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Abbas anticipates long debate in Security Council on Palestine UN membership

  

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation's application for full UN membership within weeks, not months.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Israel and Palestinians told to resume peace talks within one month

  

  The Quartet of Middle East negotiators urged Israel and the Palestinians on Friday to resume peace talks within one month and aim for a deal by the end of 2012.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:43 UTC

  Obama tells Palestinians UN is not a short cut to negotiations with Israel

  

  US President Barack Obama told the United Nations that the Palestinians deserved a state of their own, but that this would only be achieved through talks with Israel.

• Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 22:30 UTC

  Netanyahu rejects Obama’s proposal of Palestinian state on 1967 borders

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said US President Barack Obama vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave the Jewish state “indefensible”.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:25 UTC

  Israel concerned with Uruguay’s position in an Israeli/Palestinian forum

  

  Israel will follow with a critical eye the United Nations organized forum on the Israel-Palestine conflict which opened Tuesday in Montevideo, because whatever the results, the Israeli government is ‘particularly interested in the Uruguayan government’s position’.