The right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it has been ready to return to the negotiating table since it took power five months ago.
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He told me that to be on the safe side (regarding the traffic, and also scoring the primetable he wanted overlooking the sea), he should pick us up at our hotel at 4 o'clock.
And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.
And according to her, the Prime Minister of Israel put on the table a map outlining a Palestinian state and how it would relate to the Israeli borders and so forth.