Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly rejected an American proposal for a further redeployment of Israeli troops from the West Bank, saying Israel would not be playing the role of “suckers” in the peace process. “A situation in which we will give and not receive is not acceptable,” he told high school students in the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. His comments came as U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross returned to Washington from a four-day shuttle mission that reportedly failed to win approval from Israel or the Palestinian Authority for the U.S. plan.
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