Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday once again criticized the French peace initiative, as Paris prepares to convene a conference of foreign ministers on Friday to discuss the diplomatic stalemate in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

"The path to peace is not via international conferences that attempt to force a settlement, that make the Palestinian demands more extreme and in the process distance peace," Netanyahu said at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, according to Haaretz.


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