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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=301064
Netanyahu: No Quick-Fix Solutions with Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - There are no "quick-fix solutions" with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday told five visiting U.S. congressmen from the House Appropriations Committee, headed by Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). Netanyahu said he wanted to move ahead with the Palestinian Authority toward an agreement, but that the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and its aftermath showed that instant solutions were not possible. Regarding Iran, Netanyahu said that "sanctions alone will not be enough" to get Tehran to halt its nuclear program, and that the sanctions needed to be coupled with a credible military threat. If there were such a credible threat, and the Iranians understood it, then diplomacy could succeed. He said Iran's program must be halted at the uranium enrichment stage, and not when it entered the "weaponization" phase.