August 2 (Bloomberg) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to resume talks with the Palestinians on the basis of the 1967 border line, which would mean the withdrawal of the territory of the West Bank, television channel two of Israel said yesterday.
An Israeli official, speaking anonymously, because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that as part of the efforts of Israel to return to peace talks and a Palestinian attempt to recognition of A counter, Israel is willing to accept a proposal for United States at the borders. Netanyahu publicly rejected the call of the President of United States Barack Obama to use the 1967 borders as starting point for negotiations when the two leaders met at the White House may 21. Obama had requested that the negotiations that would establish a Palestinian State based on the line which existed before Israel captured the West Bank and Jerusalem in the 1967 war with the Arab Nations. The proposal includes provisions for land swaps that would allow Israel to maintain some large settlements in the West Bank in exchange for land compensation on the part of the line of 1967.La Israel proposal does not require a full Israeli return to the lines of 1967, the Israeli official said.Speaking to some 11,000 delegates from the Israel American Public Affairs Committee at the Washington Convention Center on 23 May, Netanyahu stressed that "Israel not can return to the 1967 borders indefensible".Stagnant TalksIsraeli-Palestinian peace talks stalled in September after the Netanyahu refused to renew a month 10 freeze in construction in the settlements in the West Bank and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that did not return to the talks unless it is called a total moratorium. The Palestinians are seeking an independent State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The U.S. and the so-called Quartet of Middle East which includes United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia are looking for ways to get the parties talking again before the Palestinians go ahead with its offer of September to ask the UN to acknowledge its statehood in a unilateral move.The differences that exist between Israelis and Palestinians are too big for negotiations to resume anytime soon, said a US official on 11 July, after a meeting of the Quartet not could reach agreement on a formula for the talks with both parties present.More than 300,000 Jews live in settlements in the West Bank in the middle of 2.5 million Palestinians in land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle war. The UN has declared that illegal settlements and the Palestinians have refused to return to the peace talks unless Israel stop of construction in the enclaves.Another 200,000 Israelis live in parts of East Jerusalem who were also captured in 1967. Israel considers these areas part of its sovereign territory and said never give you. The Palestinians want to make East Jerusalem the capital of a future independent State.-With the assistance of the Udi Segal in Tel Aviv, Calev Ben David in Jerusalem. Editors: Terry Atlas, Patrick Harrington
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