Jerusalem will not budge on its demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish State, which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the "core of the conflict," in an interview with AFP before the Pessah holiday.
Confirming that he was working on an initiative he will present before a joint session of the US Congress next month, Netanyahu abstained from giving any details of the plan in the interview.
The prime minister told AFP that "the core of the conflict has always been the persistent refusal of the Palestinian leadership to recognize the Jewish state in any borders."
"That is why this conflict raged for nearly 50 years before 1967, before there was a single settlement in the West Bank," he added.
Questioning the Palestinian commitment to a two-state solution, Netanyahu asked, "Why don't the Palestinians do something so simple as recognizing the Jewish state? After all, we are prepared to recognize a Palestinian state. Why can't they reciprocate if they really want peace?"
The refusal, he said, explains the root cause of the lack of peace.
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Our comment:
We recommend Bibi to do some more Tenach and Brit Chadasha study to get to know the REAL core and root of the Israëli-Palestinian conflict (or you can call it also the Arab/Islamic-Jewish conflict). The TRUE 'core of the conflict' is described in the Torah section and history of the birth of Abraham's sons Ishmaël and Isaäc Genesis chapter 17, 21, 22). The first; son of the bondslave, and the second: son of promise! This is the ROOT of todays conflict! This conflict of jealousy and lies about the promise of God and to whom G_d gave it, has been started 'in the tents of Abraham'! It's a pity that many Jews, even the PM of Israël, does not [yet] see this spiritualy, but also most secular world leaders/rulers (Psalm 2) DON'T.
Read: Isaac or Ishmael
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