[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff - Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who was one of the early leaders of the "peace camp," on Tuesday told the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum: "It's not the case that Israel has rejected partners for peace. It's more correct to understand that every time Israel sought a partner over the past year, there wasn't one available." Peretz told the activists, "I feel like I am a man of peace no less than anyone else here." He spoke of his frustration upon taking office that all factions within the PA refused to take responsibility for the increase in the number of rockets that barraged his home city of Sderot. Each Palestinian group he turned to - Fatah, Hamas, the Islamic Jihad - all stated it was not their responsibility. On Tuesday a rocket injured a female soldier in the city.
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