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Sunday 26 January 2014 - 12:37

Netanyahu says Israel not to remove illegal settlements

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Netanyahu says Israel not to remove illegal settlements
Netanyahu made the remark on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
 
    The Israeli Prime Minister also stated that he will not “evacuate any settlements or uproot a single Israeli.”
 
He further emphasized that any ideas to advance the so-called peace talks with Palestinians are just proposals.
 
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry has claimed a frame agreement between the two sides is closer than ever.
 
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas earlier said the so-called peace talks are based on a full withdrawal from the territories Israel captured in 1967.
 
Israel’s illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands is one of the sticking points in the talks, which resumed in July 2013.
 
The Palestinians want East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as their capital and that Israel should recognize borders based on the 1967 lines which existed before the Six-Day War, when Israel captured the West Bank and East al-Quds.
 
Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds. It also wants to keep settlements it has constructed inside the occupied Palestinian territories.
 
Israel also wants to keep its military presence in the Jordan Valley under any deal, but the Palestinians say an international force should be stationed there to guarantee security.
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