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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-israel-won-t-negotiate-with-palestinian-version-of-al-qaida-1.359850

Netanyahu: Israel Won't Negotiate with Palestinian Version of Al-Qaeda

(Ha'aretz) Danna Harman - Israel will not negotiate with a "Palestinian version of al-Qaeda," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday. "Declaring statehood in September is a dictate - and you don't achieve peace through dictates. It's a very bad idea," Netanyahu told Cameron during their talks in London. "When Abu Mazen (Abbas) embraces Hamas - an organization committed to our destruction - it is a tremendous setback for peace and an advance for terror," Netanyahu said. "We are talking about a Palestinian government in which half the members call for destruction of Israel and fire rockets on our cities." The real issue, he explained, is not the question of a Palestinian state, but rather of a Jewish state. "The refusal of the Palestinian Arabs to accept our country is at the root of the conflict."

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