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September 7, 2010

Israeli Foreign Minister: Peace Deal Impossible, Settlements to Resume
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Israel’s Foreign Minister has dismissed the chances of an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal while openly vowing to resume settlement
construction this month. On Sunday, Avigdor Lieberman said a peace deal
is unattainable and rejected an extension of Israel’s partial freeze on
West Bank settlement building.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman: "There will no longer be any
one-sided concessions. We don’t agree to any extension of the freeze,
not for three months, not for a year, half a year or one minute. It
needs to be understood that signing a comprehensive peace agreement,
which means an end to the conflict, settling of mutual claims and
recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, this is
an unattainable goal, not in the coming year and not in the next
generation."

Lieberman’s comments come just days after Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
agreed to hold regular US-brokered talks following last week’s summit in
Washington.



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