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Israeli PM: Either Candidate Will Maintain US Peace Policy

by Associated Press

   JERUSALEM --

   Israel's leader says he expects the next American administration to
   back Israel's approach to peacemaking regardless of who is elected
   president.
   Benjamin Netanyahu tells his Cabinet Sunday he expects to United States
   to stay loyal to its longstanding support for the Israeli-Palestinian
   conflict being resolved through "direct negotiations without
   preconditions, and of course not by decisions of the U.N. and other
   international institutions.''
   Previous rounds of negotiations over the establishment of a Palestinian
   state have broken down and left outbursts of violence in their wake.
   Israel opposes foreign initiatives to pressure it into concessions and
   accuses the U.N. of an anti-Israel bias.
   Israel was most recently outraged by a UNESCO World Heritage Committee
   resolution that it said ignored Judaism's deep ties to a Jerusalem holy
   site.