(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday: "Like me you know that the most important thing is to prepare our respective peoples for peace and in this regard, I'm sure you are going to look into the abuse of UNRWA camps in Gaza that have been used purportedly for peace camps, but actually to instill the culture of hatred and the ideas of destroying Israel amidst Palestinian children. It's very hard to habituate and prepare the next generation for peace when they're told that Jews are the descendents of pigs and monkeys and that the Jewish state has no right to exist." "As far as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, we have to get to the root cause of the problem and the root cause was and remains the persistent refusal to recognize the Jewish state in any boundary. It doesn't have to do with the settlements....The conflict preceded the establishment of a single settlement by half a century and when we rooted out all the settlements in Gaza, the attacks continued because of this basic opposition to the Jewish state."
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