Lieberman: "For peace with the Palestinians will take at least ten years"

JERUSALEM - While the U.S. try again to revive peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman the Hawk, it will take "at least ten years" to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians. "With the Palestinians there is a good economic cooperation and issues of security," Lieberman said in an interview, "we should continue on both fronts is at least ten years for a political solution." "I think it is impossible to artificially accelerate the political process.

Must advance step by step," he added, calling for a "long-term interim agreement" with the Palestinians, while peace negotiations are completely blocked for several months. The head of Israeli diplomacy, whose positions were recently disowned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has criticized the international community to "do too much" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"This creates all kinds of hope and expectation and further frustration, which lead to violence and clashes," he judged Lieberman, criticizing in particular the Middle East Quartet (U.S., EU, UN and Russia). The U.S. has recognized 7 December the failure of their efforts to convince Israel to declare a moratorium on new settlement in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, set by the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations.

Netanyahu had provisionally accepted a plan by Secretary of State Clinton, which included a three-month moratorium on colonization. But demanded written guarantees on the measures offered by Washington and the two sides have not reached agreement on the wording. Clinton has since announced a new approach that consists of a return to the indirect talks under U.S.

mediation, on the substantive issues of a peace agreement. But this proposal has remained a dead letter. The Palestinians, backed by the Arab League, indicated on December 15 in the United States that a resumption of negotiations is excluded in the absence of suspension of the construction of settlements and gave notice to Washington to present a "serious offer".

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