France asks Netanyahu to return to the solution of the two states. What the prime minister of Israel said in 2009
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot. Photo: Ludovic Marin / AP / Profimedia
The head of the French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot appealed on Tuesday to Benjamin Netanyahu to return to the idea of a solution with two states, invoking statements made by the Israeli prime minister in 2009, reports AFP, taken by Agerpres.
Senioring again “with the greatest firmness of the bombings on the civilians, the blocking of humanitarian aid, the forced relocation of the population and the recent decisions of the Israeli government to set up new colonies”, the French minister stated in a speech in Parliament an alternative to the “permanent state of war”.
“There is another way, another solution. And this other way is best described by Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel in 2009,” said the head of French diplomacy, citing Netanyahu since then: “We must tell the truth. In this home a great community of Palestinians. Our flag or culture.
“And now I say it clearly, if we receive this guarantee regarding the demilitarization and security needs of Israel and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, then we will be prepared, in a future peace agreement, to reach a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state will exist with the Jewish State,”
“Well, we ask the Israeli prime minister to return exactly and precisely to his words in 2009, because this is the only way to peace,” said Jean-Noel Barrot in his speech.
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