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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110406/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Israel to Germany: Drop Palestinian Statehood Plan
(AP) Josef Federman - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask Germany's leader in a meeting this week to drop a proposal to endorse a Palestinian state in virtually all of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem as the end point of Mideast negotiations, Israeli officials said Wednesday. Germany, Britain and France are expected to bring up that position at a meeting of Mideast mediators next week. Netanyahu argues that endorsing Palestinian positions on borders would remove a key incentive for them to restart talks. Netanyahu has said he would not give up east Jerusalem, and that Israel needs to keep West Bank areas with large Jewish settlements or those close to major Israeli population centers.