The official denied reports of a US ultimatum by which Netanyahu must respond by next month to US President Barack Obama's outline for negotiations in his Middle East speech. Steve Simon, senior National Security Council advisor on the Middle East, held a conference call with Jewish leaders on Friday in which he said that the Palestinians had indicated that they would move forward with talks on the basis of Obama’s plan if Israel agreed to as well and that the US was now waiting for Israel’s answer, according to participants on the off-the-record call.
"There's no timetable with the Americans. We did not receive any ultimatum or hint of one. There is no conflict with the US," the official responded.
"There's no timetable with the Americans. We did not receive any ultimatum or hint of one. There is no conflict with the US," the official responded.
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White House waiting for Netanyahu to accept Obama’s peace talk principles
"Those discussions are ongoing. The time frame for those discussions is kind of compressed, because UN rules basically say that the Palestinians have to submit all the paperwork before the Security Council actually meets in September .That really pushes us back into July, so we’ve got basically a month to see if we can work something out with the Israelis and Palestinians on accepting these principles as a basis for negotiations. If that happens, we are somewhat confident that the Palestinians would drop their action in the UN.”
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