"In this process, the chances of success are measured by one thing: the level of our stubbornness," Netanyahu told high school students in Maale Adumim, a West Bank settlement east of Jerusalem.
American envoy Dennis Ross returned to Washington yesterday after failing to persuade Netanyahu to accept a U.S. proposal to pull back from an additional 13 percent of the West Bank.
Netanyahu insists that Israel cannot give up more than 9 percent of the West Bank for security reasons and that Israel will not give up any land at all unless the Palestinians do more to fight terror.
"What will bring the process for
ward is that the necessary ground be laid - that is that the Palestinian side fulfills its commitments," he said yesterday.
"We are not suckers," he added, using the Hebrew slang word "freier," which means sucker, or chump. "Israel cannot give and give and not get anything back in return."
Armenia helped its ethnic kin in the enclave win an eight-year war of independence, and despite isolation, economic hardship and the threat of renewed conflict, few Armenians seem inclined to give Nagorno-Karabakh back.
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