国际英语新闻:"Interim agreement with the Palestinians is possible": Netanyahu
The Israeli-Palestinian direct negotiations came to a halt with the end of Israel's 10-month moratorium on Jewish settlements construction in the West Bank. The Palestinians have insisted on the moratorium on all Jewish settlements as a precondition for its return to the direct talks with Israel.
The prime minister claimed that the Palestinians' refusal to negotiate is the reason he has not yet presented the Obama administration with the outlines of his plan for a future peace deal.
"If the Palestinians shelve the idea of the Palestinian refugees' right of return, if they have a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state, I tell you here and now that I will go with this to the end and that no coalition consideration will stop me," he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported on Tuesday that Netanyahu's staff is knee-deep in a crisis after his chief spokesman, Nir Hefetz, announced his resignation Monday evening in favor of a job in the private sector.
Two other Netanyahu confidants, political advisor Shalom Shlomo, and personal assistant Tzahi Gavrieli, announced their resignation in the past week.
Addressing the Foreign Ministry's annual conference of Israeli ambassadors on Sunday, Lieberman, who leads the radical right-wing in the Cabinet, said Netanyahu's assurances of a final peace agreement were "unrealistic."
Asked in Monday's night interview how a minister in his government is able to repeatedly humiliate him in public, Netanyahu refrained from criticizing Lieberman, saying "he doesn't humiliate me. He expressed his opinion."
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