Barak Ravid, Aluf Benn, Mazal Mualem, Natasha Mozgovaya and Agencies: Netanyahu: Israel ready for immediate peace talks
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Title:Well, that`s not going to go very far......
Name:Johnboy
City: SydneyState: Australia
"As part of its new peace initiative, the U.S. administration will encourage Arab states to take steps to normalize their relations with Israel immediately and not wait to the end of the peace process,"

The response to that will be irrefutable: both the Egypt/Israeli and Jordanian/Israeli treaties withheld normalization until the end.

So that`s the way it should be done for everyone else, because those are the ONLY two agreements that Israel has ever signed that have stood any test of time.

But if you grant Israel normalization FIRST then Netanyahu will simply pocket that and then walk away from the negotiations, because he will already be gifted the very thing that he was after.