Known as a pro-Palestinian activist, van Agt – prime minister between 1977 and 1982 – also shared a cartoon of Netanyahu in which the Israeli prime minister is depicted as walking backwards from a sign showing the way to peace.
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Bogdanov held a meeting with Netanyahu Monday where the prime minister told him he was not interested in peace talks with Palestinians because Abbas had preconditions, the Russian deputy foreign minister told the Palestinian official.
She says that “the most important thing is to pick the right timing”.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet agent working for the KGB in Damascus, Syria in 1983, Israel’s Channel 1 reported Wednesday.
The last substantial public meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu is thought to have been in 2010, although there have been unconfirmed reports of secret meetings since then.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas inspect an honor guard during an official welcoming ceremony in the courtyard of the presidential palace in Warsaw on September 6, 2016. Netanyahu has rejected the terms and said a meeting should take place without conditions.
“The occupation and expansion… building of settlements, of occupied territory, this is according to the Rome Statute, which is… the setup… the statute on which the global criminal court is based, in so many words, a war crime”, said Van Agt in an interview reported in the British Tabloid The Independent. GroenLinks too opposes the role of Israel in the Middle East.
“If Abu Mazen is ready to meet, without preconditions, for direct talks, I am ready at any time”. We are now hearing conflicting versions.
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Abbas’s office said in an official statement that Netanyahu’s request to postpone the meeting “assures that he (Netanyahu) is evading from any global initiative to rescue the stalled peace process”.
