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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/israeli-pm-offers-nonstop-talks.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offers to sit down with the Palestinian president for continuous talks until they reach a peace deal" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-israeli-pm-offers-nonstop-talks.jpg" alt="Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offers to sit down with the Palestinian president for continuous talks until they reach a peace deal"/></a></p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said is ready to sit down with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas for continuous one-on-one talks until they reach a peace deal.</p>
<p>Mr Netanyahu issued his statement on Sunday after a Palestinian man was killed in the West Bank after reportedly trying to attack Israeli troops at a checkpoint.</p>
<p>The offer of non-stop talks was an apparent bid to breathe life into the stalled Middle East peace-making.</p>
<p>Talks broke down in late September, just three weeks after they were launched at the White House, following the expiration of a limited Israeli freeze on settlement construction.</p>
<p>Mr Abbas says Israel must halt all settlement construction on occupied lands claimed by the Palestinians before talks can resume.</p>
<p>Mr Netanyahu has refused, but says he is ready to discuss all &#8220;core&#8221; issues with Abbas. Those include setting the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine, determining the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees and resolving the competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>This weekend Mr Abbas said he believed a peace deal could be reached within two months if Mr Netanyahu showed &#8220;goodwill&#8221;. He suggested that Mr Netanyahu adopt the positions of his more dovish predecessor, Ehud Olmert. &#8220;We were close to an agreement,&#8221; said Mr Abbas. &#8220;The Palestinian position is clear to the Israelis and the Israeli position presented by Olmert is clear to us.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Olmert has said he offered the Palestinians virtually all of the West Bank and parts of east Jerusalem &#8211; captured areas claimed by the Palestinians for their state &#8211; before negotiations broke down in late 2008.</p>
<p>Mr Netanyahu, who leads a more hardline coalition government, has given little indication that he is prepared to make similar concessions. But in response to Mr Abbas&#8217; comments, Mr Netanyahu said he &#8220;is ready to immediately sit down with Abu Mazen for continuous direct, one on one, negotiations until white smoke wafts&#8221; &#8211; an allusion to the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s method of signalling the choice of a new pope.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Abu Mazen agrees to my proposal that of directly discussing all the core issues, we will know very quickly if we can reach an agreement,&#8221; he said.</p>
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