A senior Palestinian official said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to annex the Jordan Valley if re-elected destroyed all chances of Israeli-Palestinian peace. "He is not only destroying the two-state solution, he is destroying all chances of peace," senior official Hanan Ashrawi told AFP. "This is a total game changer." Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said the annexation would be "manifestly illegal". He called on the international community ...
![Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is the "minimal requirement for peace," Netanyahu told the Saban Forum on Middle East policy in Washington on Dec. 8. [EPA]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/201192615635147734_20.jpg?itok=1ja6UX5v "Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is the \"minimal requirement for peace,\" Netanyahu told the Saban Forum on Middle East policy in Washington on Dec. 8. [EPA]")
![Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/159917248.jpg?itok=OBhXzX7_ "Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. [Getty Images]")
