By Nathan Rutz
According to an Israeli statement, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with Mahmoud Abbas and promised to resume talks in an attempt to promote peace in his first contact with the Palestinian leader since March. While the statement said that they discussed “past co-operation and conversations,” but the Israeli leader has not endorsed a essential demand of the Palestinians: the creation of a independent Palestinian state. Instead, Netanyahu offered “economic peace” while saying talk of an independent state was premature. Saturday, Palestine’s main negotiator Saeb Erekat had restated the administration’s position that, until Israel agrees to a Palestinian state, peace talks will not resume.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995849.stm
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