A letter sent to the Quartet said the counterproposal would be withdrawn if Israel annexed “any part of the Palestinian territory,” the French news agency AFP reported.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman asked countries working for Israeli-Palestinian peace to call for new elections to remove Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from office.
Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators leading to full peace talks have ended with no progress, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.