Good News for You "Israel's Barak presses PM to accept two-state solution".

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Jerusalem : Israel | 6 months ago

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JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud BarakEhud Barak on Wednesday urged Prime Minister, Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu to accept the principle of a Palestinian state.

"The current government was formed with the commitment to respect the deals reached by preceding governments," Barak told public radio, ahead of a speech by Netanyahu on Sunday to lay down his peace policies. These include "the roadmap, which clearly states that the conflict must be resolved on the principle of two states for two peoples," said the head of centre-left Labour party, the most moderate member of Netanyahu's otherwise right-leaning cabinet.

"If such a solution fails, there will be only one political entity from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean -- the state of Israel. "Under such a scenario, if the Palestinians have the right to vote, it will no longer be a Jewish state, but a bi-national state. And if they don't have the right to vote, it will be an apartheid regime," said the former premier.

Barak spoke a day after meeting US Middle East envoy George MitchellGeorge Mitchell, who also met Netanyahu for four hours. Mitchell is due to hold talks with Palestinian president Mahmud AbbasMahmud Abbas on Wednesday.

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