PM Netanyahu's Remarks during his Meeting with Irish FM Eamon Gilmore
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks during his
meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore today (Sunday), 29.1.12:

"The only way to enter into a discussion is through direct negotiations.
Israel wants to do just that. We have our disappointments. One of them
occurred this week when the Palestinian Authority's official television
broadcasts a glorification of the killers who murdered an Israeli
family, the Fogel
family.
They murdered the three little children and the parents. And they were on
official Palestinian television presented as martyrs and heroes. This comes
on the heels of the Palestinian Mufti's call to murder Jews wherever they
are. Also broadcast on official Palestinian
Television.
I think this is the wrong way to go. We demand a prompt condemnation; I hope
you demand a condemnation because the only way to move to peace is to
prepare our people for peace and not for brutal terror. We hope that these
talks will continue. We're prepared to continue these talks, we hope the
Palestinian Authority decides to resume the talks and back away from terror
and glorification of killers."