.... Professor Ben-Zion Netanyahu told an interviewer on Israel’s Channel Two that his son had told him that he had placed so many conditions on his offer last month of a Palestinian state as to make it unacceptable to the Palestinians. “He told me that they would never meet even one of those conditions,” he said.
In a major political address last month, Prime Minister Netanyahu, acting under intense American pressure, declared for the first time his readiness to accept a Palestinian state existing peacefully alongside Israel. However, he conditioned this acceptance on the Palestinians agreeing to their state being demilitarized and to their acknowledging Israel as “the state of the Jewish people”, thereby effectively undercutting any claims for the return of Palestinian refugees to Israel. Other conditions he laid down included foregoing Palestinian claims on Arab-inhabited parts of Jerusalem and readiness by the Palestinians to have their air space left open to Israeli flights. These conditions were indeed immediately rejected by Palestinian spokesmen.
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