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May 24, 2011

Telegraph: Israel prepared to make 'painful compromises' for peace

by Toby Harnden
The Telegraph

But his speech to a joint session of both houses of the United States Congress was described by Palestinians as “a declaration of war” during which Mr Netanyahu reiterated his refusal of any plan to return to the ceasefire lines that existed before the Six-Day War in 1967.

Mr Netanyahu for the first time conceded that he recognised “in a genuine peace we will be required to give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland”, referring to the occupied West Bank.

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