05-03-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com

Netanyahu offered unity govt as part of peace bid: report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a plan to form a unity government with Israel's opposition last year as part of a regional peace bid, but later backtracked, a newspaper reported Sunday.The plan centred on a document delivered to opposition leader Isaac Herzog in September, but Netanyahu later pulled back and talks collapsed in October, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.The effort came as moves were underway to restart peace talks with the Palestinians through a process that would incl
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