WORLD BRIEFING / ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will deliver a major policy address next week laying out his proposed road to Mideast peace, after coming under stiff U.S. pressure to freeze West Bank settlement construction and endorse Palestinian statehood.
Netanyahu offered no hint of what he might say. Bound by his hard-line coalition and his own ideology, he has resisted the U.S. demands so far, deepening an unusual faceoff with Israel’s most important ally.
“It must be understood, we seek peace with the Palestinians and with the states of the Arab world while trying to reach as much understanding as possible with the United States and our friends abroad,” the Israeli leader said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “Next week I will make an important policy speech in which I will present to the citizens of Israel our principles on achieving this peace and security,” he said.
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