President Peres on Tuesday morning 16 Adar II spoke this morning at the Sixth Annual Negev Conference in Sderot and addressed the negotiations between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority), the situation in the Middle East and Israel’s relations with the United States
“I am pleased to see the government doing all it can to continue the negotiations so as the process does not collapse. I am also pleased that the US is supporting us in these talks. We are fortunate to have the alliance with the US – we should not be embarrassed to say thank you to the US for the diplomatic and security support it has and continues to offer us. We are not an isolated nation, we never were. We are a nation that seeks peace.”
President Peres addressed the disagreements with the PA adding, “The Palestinians are not satisfied with us and we are not satisfied with them but neither of us are satisfied with terror and war. We should all we can to be strong in security and advanced in science, I believe it is our interest to achieve full peace with the Palestinians and not to hesitate. We must base that peace upon two pillars – diplomacy and security.”
Regarding relations between Israel and Egypt, Mr. Peres added, “Israel has a major interest in seeing Egypt overcome her present difficulties. Both Israel and Egypt will struggle to guarantee peace and security, on both sides of the fence, without ongoing cooperation. There are a number of difficulties on this front, first and foremost Gaza and Sinai which have become focal points of terror. We cannot allow the Negev to become an arena for smugglers and terrorists, and so we have an interest in seeing Egypt strong and whole, and to continue to cooperate both in terms of security and diplomacy.”
And on the Jordanian front he stated, “Relations between Israel and Jordan were developed by all the governments.” With respect to the incident at the Allenby Bridge in March President Peres added, “We still do not know for certain what happened, the incident is being investigated. Jordan is a pragmatic partner and a country that invests heavily in education, the benefits of which can be seen. King Abdullah has major achievements in this field.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The only problem is that Obama has a different approach than Peres towards diplomacy. Obama believes
that a peace deal will be achieved so in order to achieve it he pressures Israel by so called diplomacy, while Peres is saying that we dont like each other so plz no pressure we need diplomacy and most important of all Security of these terrorists.
Peres is wrong, the arabs are satisfied with terror and war. It is one of their stated and written strategic goals to lead them to their goal of eliminating Israel.
Also, what nonsense is his comment about the event on Allenby bridge “we are not sure what happened the matter is being investigated”
A senior judge attempted to grab a soldiers gun and was shot dead. What are you not sure about mr, Peres?