Netanyahu calls on Abbas “to recognize Israel as a Jewish state”
November 20, 2013 
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NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on President Mahmoud Abbas to address the Israeli Knesset and to “recognize Jewish links to the land of Israel.”
“I call on him from here today: let’s break the deadlock,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday in a special address to the Knesset, in honor of a visit by French President Francois Hollande.
“Come to the Israeli Knesset and I’ll come to Ramallah. Get up on this platform and recognize the historical truth: the Jews have a nearly 4,000-year-old link to the land of Israel, he said addressing PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Meanwhile, Israel’s chief negotiator Tzipi Livni declared a new round of negotiations to be held in few days with PA delegation.
Livni confirmed that Saeb Erekat, who recently announced his resignation as head of the Palestinian negotiating team, “is still in his office and he will head the Palestinian delegation at the upcoming meeting.”
Erekat decided along with members of the Palestinian negotiating team to resign in protest against the Israeli government’s decision to approve more tenders to build thousands of settlement units.
Sources in Fatah movement pointed out that Erekat withdrew his resignation after Fatah Central Committee decided to continue the negotiations despite Israeli settlement escalation and the killing of 14 Palestinians since talks’ resumption three months ago.
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