(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - "By boycotting negotiations and by going instead to the United Nations, they [the Palestinians] have reneged on a central tenet" of the 1993 Oslo Accords with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday during closed-door discussions in his office. Netanyahu said that within the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel pulled out of large sections of the West Bank. It paid a territorial price because, according to Oslo, the Palestinians had made a commitment to solve all outstanding issues and disputes through direct negotiations. Now, the Palestinians refuse to negotiate a final status solution with Israel.
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