Netanyahu: We expect next US president to back direct peace talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed hope Sunday that both US President Barack Obama, and whoever succeeds him, will not impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the outside.

 

Netanyahu opened his weekly cabinet meeting with remarks about Tuesday’s US election, saying that “I am convinced that the United States will continue acting on the principle it set that the only solution to the conflict is direct negotiations without preconditions.”

 

Read More: Netanyahu: We expect next US president to back direct peace talks