Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he was ready, Tuesday, May 24, to "painful compromises" to achieve peace with the Palestinians, who appeared before the U.S. Congress that he "will never abandon the pursuit of Peace. If he said that his country would be generous to the borders of a future Palestinian state, but he reiterated his refusal to return to the armistice lines of 1967 and a division of Jerusalem.
However, these two conditions are the main demands of the Palestinians for a peace agreement. "It's not easy for me, because I recognize that in a real peace, we must give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland. We must understand that in Judea and Samaria, Jews are not occupiers," he added in reference to the West Bank.
Mr. Netanyahu has admitted the prospect that after a peace agreement, some Jewish settlements would be left implant outside the borders of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister has also not released his combativeness toward Hamas, vowing that Israel would not negotiate with the "Palestinian version of al-Qaida." Hamas, in power in Gaza, is now bound by a coalition agreement with the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas.
According to the Israeli prime minister, peace has been achieved in the Middle East to this lack of acceptance of the existence of Israel from the Palestinians. "In recent years, Palestinians have twice refused the generous offers (...) They simply were not willing to end the conflict," he said.
Palestinians have reacted quickly to the speech of Mr. Netanyahu: "There is nothing new in the speech of Netanyahu if he adds obstacles on the path to true peace, serious, lasting and comprehensive peace," he lamented a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas. The spokesman reiterated that peace requires international benchmarks such as the recognition of the 1967 lines as a basis for negotiations and that the Palestinians "would not accept any Israeli presence on the Jordan" inside of their future state.
This discourse therefore leaves the Palestinians "no other choice than to go to the UN in September to call for the recognition of their state, said a Palestinian negotiator. For its part, Hamas said the Israeli prime minister's speech "asked the Palestinians to achieve the impossible conditions" and showed he "does not want any peace process in the region." Mr.
Netanyahu, who had a public disagreement with President Barack Obama, on the border issue, was under pressure to announce concessions suspectibles revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Barack Obama recalled Sunday that American financial aid to the defense of Israel had reached record levels under his leadership.
For the first time, an early interception system of the missile, the "Iron Dome", has been implemented successfully by Israel a few weeks ago, preventing the arrival of the rockets had been fired from Gaza. 
However, these two conditions are the main demands of the Palestinians for a peace agreement. "It's not easy for me, because I recognize that in a real peace, we must give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland. We must understand that in Judea and Samaria, Jews are not occupiers," he added in reference to the West Bank.
Mr. Netanyahu has admitted the prospect that after a peace agreement, some Jewish settlements would be left implant outside the borders of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister has also not released his combativeness toward Hamas, vowing that Israel would not negotiate with the "Palestinian version of al-Qaida." Hamas, in power in Gaza, is now bound by a coalition agreement with the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas.
According to the Israeli prime minister, peace has been achieved in the Middle East to this lack of acceptance of the existence of Israel from the Palestinians. "In recent years, Palestinians have twice refused the generous offers (...) They simply were not willing to end the conflict," he said.
Palestinians have reacted quickly to the speech of Mr. Netanyahu: "There is nothing new in the speech of Netanyahu if he adds obstacles on the path to true peace, serious, lasting and comprehensive peace," he lamented a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas. The spokesman reiterated that peace requires international benchmarks such as the recognition of the 1967 lines as a basis for negotiations and that the Palestinians "would not accept any Israeli presence on the Jordan" inside of their future state.
This discourse therefore leaves the Palestinians "no other choice than to go to the UN in September to call for the recognition of their state, said a Palestinian negotiator. For its part, Hamas said the Israeli prime minister's speech "asked the Palestinians to achieve the impossible conditions" and showed he "does not want any peace process in the region." Mr.
Netanyahu, who had a public disagreement with President Barack Obama, on the border issue, was under pressure to announce concessions suspectibles revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Barack Obama recalled Sunday that American financial aid to the defense of Israel had reached record levels under his leadership.
For the first time, an early interception system of the missile, the "Iron Dome", has been implemented successfully by Israel a few weeks ago, preventing the arrival of the rockets had been fired from Gaza.
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