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Peres: Netanyahu derailed peace talks 3 years ago
In TV interview, the Israeli president says he was on the brink of a historic peace agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.By Haaretz | May 7, 2014
President Shimon Peres has revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke off negotiations Peres was conducting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the brink of a historic peace agreement.
In an interview he gave to Israel's Channel 2, Peres said that 3 years ago he and Abbas had reached agreement on “nearly all points of dispute”, but that “Netanyahu was under the impression that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was about to present a better deal.”
According to Peres, he didn’t agree but Netanyahu wanted to wait a few more days.
“I thought that it wasn’t a question of a few more days and that Blair would not produce a better agreement than the one I had reached.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.589366
