Netanyahu meeting with his cabinet on Sunday
Photo / Haaretz, Emil Salman
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his eight
senior cabinet ministers decided Sunday to
support the Middle East Quartet's plan for
renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
within a month without preconditions.
"Israel
welcomes the Quartet's call for direct
negotiations between the parties without
preconditions," Netanyahu's bureau said
in a statement. The statement added that
Israel has a few concerns about the
Quartet's plan which it will bring up
during the negotiations.
Diplomatic
sources noted that Israel's has
concerns rooted in two major
subjects – one being the timetable
which allocates only three months
for negotiations on border and
security issues, and the other that
the issues of Palestinian refugees
and the recognition of a Jewish
state are scheduled for a later
stage in the negotiations