25.05.2011                      21.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 36 des Omer

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'If Abbas accepts Jewish State, 90% of conflict resolved'

Cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser says Netanyahu's speech to US Congress successfully "put the ball in the Palestinians' court".

Cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made clear in his speech to the US Congress that "the ball is now in the Palestinians' court" and if PA President Mahmoud Abbas accepts Israel as a the Jewish State, "ninety percent of the conflict will be resolved," Israel Radio reported.
Hauser stated that all remaining problems could be negotiated, but it seems that there is "not the slightest hint that the Palestinians were willing to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people"….