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| Last Edited | Penguin Apr 29, 2010 09:00pm |
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| News Date | Friday, April 30, 2010 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Reuven Rivlin, the speaker of Israel's Knesset, has said that he would rather accept Palestinians as citizens of one country than divide Israel and the West Bank into two separate states.
"I would rather [have] Palestinians as citizens of this country over dividing the land up," Rivlin, a member of the ruling Likud party, was quoted as saying in Israel's Haaretz newspaper on Thursday.
Speaking during a meeting with Kyriakos Loukakis, Greece's ambassador to Israel, Rivlin said that he did not see any point of Israel signing a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
He said that he did not believe Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, "could deliver the goods".
As speaker of the Israel's parliament, Rivlin would serve as acting president in the absence or incapacitation of the president.
Last month, Amr Moussa, the Arab league's secretary-general, said that the league was investigating the possibility of supporting a one-state solution if Israel left no opportunity to build two states. |
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