Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to cancel a pact with Hamas, and said a unilateral bid for Palestinian statehood must be fought.
Speaking to a House chamber packed with US lawmakers on Tuesday, Netanyahu said, “Peace can only be negotiated with partners committed to peace. And Hamas is not a partner for peace.”
“Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction and to terrorism,” he argued, as he referred to a reconciliation pact between Abbas’s Fatah party and Hamas signed earlier this month.
“So I say to President Abbas, tear up your pact with Hamas. Sit down and negotiate. Make peace with the Jewish state.”
The Israeli prime minister also took issue with a Palestinian drive, currently gathering condensation, to convince the United Nations to unilaterally recognize an independent Palestinian state at its General Assembly in September.
“The Palestinian attempt to impose a settlement through the UN will not bring peace,” Netanyahu stressed. “It should be forcefully opposed by all those who want to see this conflict end.”
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