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Israel/Palestine

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 10:43 PM Nov 2014

Peres slams Israelis who 'renounce peace'

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=736841

TEL AVIV (AFP) -- Israel's former president and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres on Saturday took a swipe at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for failing to make peace with Palestinians.

"Those who have renounced making peace are ... not patriots," Peres said at a ceremony in Tel Aviv marking the 19th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin, who had signed peace agreements with the Palestinians.

"It's a shame that the only peace initiative was an Arab initiative. Where is the Israeli peace initiative?" Peres asked, warning that "time is against us."

He was referring to the Arab Peace Initiative made in 2002 by oil kingpin Saudi Arabia, calling on Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in exchange for a normalization of ties with Arab countries.

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