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Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem last week. (Reuters)
Last update - 15:12 10/11/2008
Likud Chief Netanyahu: If elected, I'll continue peace talks
By News Agencies
Tags: israel news, peace process 

Opposition leader and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that if he were to be elected prime minister in the coming elections, he would continue political peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

Polls currently place Netanyahu's conservative Likud party and Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima neck and neck ahead of February
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lections.

Netanyahu's office has said peace talks launched last year by U.S. President George W. Bush have failed to make headway, and he has signaled he would cut off the negotiations if elected.

But after meeting with international peace envoy Tony Blair in Jerusalem
Monday, Netanyahu said he would move political negotiations forward if he wins the election.

The meeting came a day after Israeli, Palestinian and international
negotiators pledged to continue the talks after Bush leaves office early next year.

During the talks on Sunday, Israel and the Palestinian Authority presented the Quartet for Mideast peace with several agreements on the way negotiations will proceed next year on the conflict's core issues.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas updated the Quartet at Sharm el-Sheikh stressed "the need for continuous, uninterrupted, direct bilateral negotiations."

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      1.   Nuttyyahoo will either 14:27  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/11/08
      2.   He`s gonna wish for McCain`s media sympathy 14:53  |  JT 10/11/08
      3.   Number 1 Nonsense 14:54  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      4.   Bibi will do anything just to get elected. 14:55  |  Fortuna Benmayor 10/11/08
      5.   The whole "Netanyahu doesn`t want peace" thing is a leftist spin 15:12  |  R T 10/11/08
      6.   Bibi is the best for Israel and best for peace!! 15:41  |  Dr Eric 10/11/08
      7.   BIBI IS GREAT IN EVERY WAY!!! 15:45  |  Dr Eric 10/11/08
      8.   #3 Ralph Levy 15:47  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/11/08
      9.   6 15:52  |  zionist forever 10/11/08
      10.   Netanyahu 15:56  |  David 10/11/08
      11.   sure natan yahoo can do the livni abbas song 15:57  |  and dance too!! 10/11/08
      12.   Polls are unreliable 15:58  |  Nemesis 10/11/08
      13.   Linthwaite-Well, if Hamas says they will have state must be true 16:20  |  Sam 10/11/08
      14.   Palistinian Arab State 16:27  |  Jimmy 10/11/08
      15.   Netanyahu doesn`t want anything but war! 16:34  |  James 10/11/08
      16.   Bibi will talk and talk and talk. This you can believe. 16:35  |  Natallie Durson 10/11/08
      17.   Peace through he barrel of a gun I hope..missiles are landing in 16:39  |  Jordan 10/11/08
      18.   "palestinians" will not honour an Abbas agreement anyway... 16:40  |  Jimmy 10/11/08
      19.   advice to Israel 16:40  |  Harry 10/11/08
      20.   All the talkbackers that oppose bibi are supporters of the PA ! 16:43  |  Dr eric 10/11/08
      21.   So Sad that the left supports hate and intolerance!! 16:46  |  Dr Eric 10/11/08
      22.   #8 Israel is not the 51st State 16:58  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      23.   TIghtrope of Death 17:01  |  Pinchas 10/11/08
      24.   And I have a bridge in Brooklyn,NY which I will sell you 17:03  |  Jeff 10/11/08
      25.   Politically Correct 17:13  |  Fahmi Natour 10/11/08
      26.   bibi peace talks with the vatican dont count 17:22  |  victor hardman 10/11/08
      27.   #13 Sam 17:39  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/11/08
      28.   #22 Ralph Levy 17:45  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/11/08
      29.   What Bibi wants is to negotiate for the next 120 years 17:45  |  Tom Lobo Meyer 10/11/08
      30.   #27 Chris 17:45  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      31.   He speaks with a forked tongue 17:50  |  Michael 10/11/08
      32.   #30 Chris Blair is a Currupted Crook 18:05  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      33.   #13 Sam in Canada 18:22  |  mike 10/11/08
      34.   #32 Ralph Levy 18:24  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/11/08
      35.   Linthwaite-Netanyahu flip-flopped to please everyone 18:29  |  Sam 10/11/08
      36.   No Ring of Truth 18:48  |  Mark of Lewiston 10/11/08
      37.   Obama has said support for Israeli doesn`t 19:10  |  mike 10/11/08
      38.   #37 Then there will be War 19:26  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      39.   There will NEVER be a "palestinian" state! 19:32  |  READ MY LIPS.....#1 10/11/08
      40.   Mike-Quartet didn`t force Israel to capitulate 19:42  |  Sam 10/11/08
      41.   #39 Read my lips--`there will never be an 20:09  |  mike 10/11/08
      42.   #40 Sam 20:12  |  mike 10/11/08
      43.   #30 Ralph 20:34  |  mike 10/11/08
      44.   #43 Mike 20:55  |  Ralph Levy 10/11/08
      45.   News for BIBI. Barack Hussain Obama is the President 20:58  |  Abm Habibullah 10/11/08
      46.   Will the US or UN invade Israel to impose a pal state? 21:28  |  Gregor 10/11/08
      47.   Right wing Likud won 48 seats. Centrist Likud won 12. 21:49  |  Chaim 10/11/08
      48.   #45...abm habibullah 23:28  |  Nemesis 10/11/08
      49.   A Sick Joke 23:32  |  Phil Ishmael 10/11/08
      50.   #46 Gregor 23:43  |  mike 10/11/08
      51.   BIBI - TIMELINES, TALK vs. SURRENDER 23:51  |  Barry S. Roffman 10/11/08
      52.   # 1 to chris linthwaite re: realizations 23:53  |  eric 10/11/08
      53.   THE MAN OF "PRINCIPLE" BIBI 00:46  |  indrajaya 11/11/08
      54.   bibi 01:06  |  sam 11/11/08
      55.   none of you need to worry what BIBI`S gonna do 04:53  |  eric 11/11/08
      56.   If elected ....... 12:06  |  Giora Nevo 11/11/08
      57.   Please my brother and sisters... 22:09  |  Ben 11/11/08
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