Jordan – Shimon Peres, Israel’s nonagenarian former president and forever elder statesman, told a gathering of Middle Eastern leaders in Jordan on Friday that “a clear majority of Israelis favor a two-state solution” to the conflict with the Palestinians.
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In a news conference during which he fielded questions from dozens of journalists from the Arab world, Peres said that “arriving at a diplomatic resolution is possible, necessary, and urgent.”
Peres was at the Dead Sea confab which attracted numerous statesmen and leaders from across the region, including the host, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi.
“I believe that peace talks could resume and we must do this as quickly as possible,” the former president said. “What is clear is that nobody can freeze the situation as is, and the status quo is not an option.”
Peres said it was premature to write off the two-state solution as the basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
“There were times when it seemed that peace with Jordan and Egypt were a pipe dream,” the former president said. “It is by virtue of the peace treaties with those countries that we live alongside our neighbors and overcome the complex challenges of the Middle East.”
When asked if the chances for a two-state solution had disappeared, Peres replied: “The new government in Israel has only started to work, so it’s too early to judge.”
“But I can say that there is a clear commitment to two states just as there was during the previous government,” he said. “The importance of negotiations is to solve the disagreements. There’s no need to get carried away or give up in light of existing gaps.”
Peres said that the calculus in the region has changed thanks to Islamic State and the ascent of radical organizations.
“Terrorism has claimed many lives,” Peres said. “It has turned many people into refugees, destroyed families, and spilled a great deal of blood. Irrespective of religion, we must say in a loud voice that decapitating is not a religious or moral edict. It’s a sin, not a prayer. The Middle East today knows that terrorism is the real enemy.”
“The moderate forces in the Middle East must stand shoulder to shoulder and cooperate for the sake of progress and hope and against any escalation and bloodshed,” Peres said. “Together we can turn this region into one that flourishes.”
the problem is that most of the arabs want one state, and that state that they want is our state, Israel. They want it destroyed since we Jews are second class people according to the Koran which teaches Muslims that they will be on top and we will be on the bottom.
Sold his neshama nebach for the liberal agenda.
Oddly enough, lots of Israelis seem to want one state, just with your scenario reversed.
Peres lives in two states: the state of denial and the state of senility.
As written in your Torah Jews will never obtain any land for them selves but your satanic leaders of banks in the world whom leads economy and wars in all middle East to spread terror and media to market islamophibia and be the sheep when you are the wolf of the story please lecture us more about how far will you get convincing the world that killing civilians daily and their children mother’s and elders for the sake of raising blood shed in Palestine lands and move forward to get your raped lands from familys who lived for hundreds of years before you Zionists blood loving creatures came Jews Christians and Muslims lived together in peace love and joy no one will kill a Jew in Muslim world it’s just your countrys media weapon to try to get people with less knowledge about the world’s top killing spree rampage going on there in Palestine just tell me do any of your grandfather’s or third generation can tell where are they from no and remember there is ALLAH just after you get Rotterdam you’ll meet him for sure and I only wish you be prepared well to meet him because there is no second chance