Peres to Palestinian PM: Stalled peace talks hurt us both
President speaks to Salam Fayyad on sidelines of Copenhagen climate change summit.
By Barak Ravid Tags: Shimon Peres Israel newsPresident Shimon Peres met with Salam Fayyad on Thursday on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he told the Palestinian prime minister that the frozen peace talks are harming both Israel and the Palestinians.
"The Palestinian Authority is making a big mistake by refusing to negotiate with Israel," Peres told Fayyad. "You won't achieve anything this way. Both sides need to show flexibility. The way things stand, both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are suffering as a result of the stalled talks. We must sit down and negotiate."
In his address before the conference Thursday, Peres urged Israel's neighbors, including those with which it does not have diplomatic ties, to join hands to help save the environment.
"Political disagreements should not hinder environmental cooperation," Peres said at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Carbon molecules carry no passport," Peres said. "Rivers require no visa. Pollution travels with them."
Peres vowed that Israel will make its best efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by the year 2020.
Referring to the Middle East, Peres told the summit that the region requires a multilateral taskforce of scientists and experts to build environmental cooperation regardless of political disputes.
Peres added that the resources in the region are diminishing while the population has tripled in the last 30 years. Peres also outlined how Israeli technology has helped conserve energy and resources.
"New technologies enable us to re-use 75 percent of our water," the president said, adding, "Our thermo solar and geo thermal energy farms provide renewable-energy in California, Nevada, Spain and other countries. They have already saved up to 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions."
Peres met with 17 more world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
During the course of the conference, Peres received many requests for cooperation with Israel in the field of green energy. For example, the Afghani environmental protection minister shook Peres' hand and voiced interest in Israeli technology.
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The Pals should say nothing and promise to give up any second state and Hamas has won. Israel is lucky that the Pals are not very clever.
In many respects it is already one state. After all these years! The problem is that the majority is now Arab when you look at both sides of the green line. So the government is rushing to turn it into two states in order to preserve the shrinking Jewish majority west of the green line. The longer Isreal waits the more they have to lose.
aand still spouts total crap!
No more non sense. Just call it Isrestine and Israeli and Palestinian live in peace. You already had your chance at the two states solution for so long. This is just a dream that will never materialize. The entire world is tired of this and want to see an end to the occupation. I can?t believe that the world let this go on for so long.
So says the President of Israel, the state which refuses to allow Gazans the building materials they need to stop raw sewage flowing into the Med. He pollutes us all with his hypocrisy.
while israel believes in satan? i mean, this is an insult toward natural human intelligence what those criminals are doing.
fake jew called simon peres to shut the fuck up because he contribute to global warming and climate change more than whole worldwide sum of co2 altogether.
What good are the fancy sound bites, when the intellect is corrupt and devoid of historical meaning, spiritually, and morality? Just empty words from an empty soul.
connected with israel doing in jerusalem? what does those fake jewish terrorists doing there? what are those idiots dreaming about? jerusalem belong to jews and arabs and all the good and just not israelis. israeli fake jewish criminals are the last "nation" on the planet that has a right to live in jerusalem.
"Israel bans all PA events in the Holy City, which it views as its "eternal, undivided" capital." and the racist terrorist criminal fake jew peres is saying israel is a jewish state. what the fuck seriously. i think that those fake jewish criminals with guns terrorizing humans need a nuke badly over their foreheads.
Clean environment and preservation of human health and resources require accountable leadership that is subject to public scrutiny. Such things do not exist in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, the biggest environmental contaminators. Their objectives are not the well-being of their people, but their subjugation. Israel should reach out to and help empower democratic promoters in Arab countries instead of collaborating with absolute theocratic dictators who are bent on its ultimate destruction.
Peres is either naive enough to not know that the environment and politics are in separable or he is just acting which is unlikely. Politics and environment are inseparable as politics and economics and economics and environment are inseparable. Who will convince cocacola to stop producing canned coke or plastic bottled coke and instead use only recyclible glass bottles like in the old days ? Who can apply such a pressure ? Well nobody can, but at least theoretically the politicians can apply such a pressure. Capitalism makes you buy the plastic bottle with the coke, a plastic bottle which ends up on the bottom of the ocean clogging the natural fish habitat. You pay for the bottle that functions for you 10 minutes while you drink the coke and which pollutes the ocean for 200 years. Vey good. Long live capitalism, long live USA !!!