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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=209370
"Israel Has Shown Genuine Desire to Renew Negotiations"
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking Tuesday at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels, presented EU foreign ministers with a document contrasting Israel's confidence-building measures toward the Palestinians with the PA's "confrontational conduct." Lieberman said Israel has taken numerous steps to improve life for the Palestinians and shown a genuine desire to renew negotiations. By contrast, "during this time the Palestinians have worked in the opposite direction and have done everything to upset relations between the sides, in the belief that this will win them sympathy and support in the international community." Lieberman said "poverty and misery" are the main reasons for the unrest in Arab countries, and that there was no link between that turmoil and the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic process. A paper prepared by the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the Palestinians were "violating the Oslo Accords" by attempting to change the status of the disputed territories, inciting against Israel, acting against Israel within international organizations, organizing boycotts, glorifying suicide terrorists and encouraging terrorism.