Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, setting the stage for a visit to high-profile United States said Monday that a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas Islamists could not be Israel's peace partner. But in what could be a retreat from positions held for long, right-wing leader appeared to offer the prospect of future territorial compromise compliance with its terms for peace that have caused Palestinian rejection in the past.
"These commitments, of course, are painful because they mean, in any event, extensions of our country. This is not a foreign land is the land of our fathers and we have not only historical rights and security interests," he said. Netanyahu, speaking to parliament before talks Friday in Washington with President Barack Obama, said a unity deal the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, reached this month with Hamas, a movement whose principles call for the destruction of Israel- was a barrier to peace.
"A government compound in the middle by the daily declaring their intention to destroy the State of Israel is not a partner for peace", he said. The unity deal, which Palestinians see as essential to repair disputes before a planned attempt to request the UN to recognize a Palestinian state in September, provides for the formation of an interim government and elections this year.
Palestinian leaders say the administration will be composed of independent and Abbas would lead any peace agreement with Israel. Peace talks backed by the United States failed shortly after resumed in September after Netanyahu refused to extend a partial moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank land captured by Israel in the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 and The Palestinians seek as part of their State.
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat, commenting on the speech, Netanyahu said he had chosen "dictation, not negotiation," and was "solely responsible for the derailment of the peace process." Israeli political analysts, however, saw a softer line on settlements Netanyahu. In his speech, Netanyahu said that Israel must retain "settlement blocs" in any future peace agreement.
This was the first time you used that phrase, which could be suggesting a willingness to evacuate isolated settlements and small for peace, analysts noted. 
"These commitments, of course, are painful because they mean, in any event, extensions of our country. This is not a foreign land is the land of our fathers and we have not only historical rights and security interests," he said. Netanyahu, speaking to parliament before talks Friday in Washington with President Barack Obama, said a unity deal the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, reached this month with Hamas, a movement whose principles call for the destruction of Israel- was a barrier to peace.
"A government compound in the middle by the daily declaring their intention to destroy the State of Israel is not a partner for peace", he said. The unity deal, which Palestinians see as essential to repair disputes before a planned attempt to request the UN to recognize a Palestinian state in September, provides for the formation of an interim government and elections this year.
Palestinian leaders say the administration will be composed of independent and Abbas would lead any peace agreement with Israel. Peace talks backed by the United States failed shortly after resumed in September after Netanyahu refused to extend a partial moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank land captured by Israel in the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 and The Palestinians seek as part of their State.
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat, commenting on the speech, Netanyahu said he had chosen "dictation, not negotiation," and was "solely responsible for the derailment of the peace process." Israeli political analysts, however, saw a softer line on settlements Netanyahu. In his speech, Netanyahu said that Israel must retain "settlement blocs" in any future peace agreement.
This was the first time you used that phrase, which could be suggesting a willingness to evacuate isolated settlements and small for peace, analysts noted.
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