By Xinhua,
Jerusalem : Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that no Palestinian state would be created before the security of the Jewish state can be guaranteed.
“A Palestinian state can be established only after Israel’s comprehensive security needs are met,” local daily Yedioth Ahronoth quoted her as saying at a meeting with American envoy to the Middle East General James Jones.
“Any situation in which Palestinians territories will be used as a hotbed for terror activates would be against the Israeli interests and against all of the United States’s interests,” she added.
Over six months after Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged at a U.S.-hosted conference to reach a comprehensive peace deal within 2008, little progress has been achieved in the process toward the coexistence of two nations.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to go to Middle East this weekend to give another push for the sluggish Israeli-Palestinian peace process.