JERUSALEM (AP) — Officials close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say he will ask Germany’s leader to drop her support for a proposal endorsing a Palestinian state in virtually all of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem.
Germany, Britain and France are leading the proposal, which calls for a future Palestinian state in the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
Netanyahu rejects a full withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Israeli officials say he will raise the matter with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a sensitive diplomatic matter.
Israel fears the “Quartet” of Mideast peacemakers — the European Union, United Nations, Russia and United States — will endorse the European proposal this month.
