US warns Israel it needs PA

At least 106 Palestinians have also died, including 71 said by Israel to be attackers.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses journalists at the ministry in Athens, Greece, December 4, 2015.

Kerry posed the question: “If there is a risk the Palestinian Authority might collapse and Israel wants it to survive, shouldn’t Israel do more to help sustain it?” the Israeli newspaper Hareetz reported.

“Israel will not be a binational state”, he said, but “in order to have peace, the other side must decide it too wants peace”.

“President Abbas spoke more despairingly, my friends, than I have ever heard him about the sense of hopelessness that the Palestinian people feel”, Kerry, who traveled to the region last month, said in a speech at the Brookings Institution.

Israeli security forces on Saturday night descended on the offices of two Palestinian publishing houses in the West Bank city of Hebron, and confiscated equipment, over accusations that they had printed and distributed propaganda for the Hamas terror group as well as material that incited violence against Israelis.

Since the violence erupted, 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings and shootings.

The post Kerry warns Israel about potential collapse of Palestinian authority appeared first on PBS NewsHour. Israeli forces have killed 102 Palestinians in the same period, of whom 63 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out assaults.

“The one-state solution is no solution at all for a secure, Jewish, democratic Israel living in peace”, he said. Hotovely hinted at a possible exclusion of the Swedish government from Israeli efforts to revive peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians that have been stalled since early 2014.

However, he went on to say that “current trends, including violence, settlement activity, demolitions are imperilling the viability of a two-state solution”.

The remarks by the top USA envoy came a week after he met Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Ramallah and Jerusalem. He also lamented that Israeli settlements were expanding further into areas Palestinians considered part of a future state while denying permits for Palestinian projects in territories that would be negotiated over as part of an eventual peace agreement.