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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues to call on the PA (Palestinian Authority) to renew direct talks, insisting this is the only path to a final status peace.

During his remarks in Tzfat during a physician’s award ceremony at Bar Ilan Faculty of Medicine in the Galil, Mr. Netanyahu said, “We are defending the country. We are defending its borders on the Golan Heights, opposite Gaza and in the south.

“We have not stopped looking for paths to peace – including with the assistance of important developments in the region.

“The way to peace does not go through international conferences that seek to impose agreements, make the Palestinians’ demands more extreme and thereby make peace more remote.

“The way to peace is via direct negotiations without preconditions between the sides. This is how peace was achieved in the past with Egypt and Jordan and this is what needs to be with the Palestinians. If the nations meeting in Paris this week really want to advance peace they should join me in calling on Abu Mazen to come to direct negotiations of this kind. This is the way to peace – there is no other.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)