Hawkish new Israel president ready to meet Abbas: report

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https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aGeiTLhuUaLg4DcepgEPQQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/ff8b25d47f03fa551d64d4053b14787aff87e62b.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/hawkish-israel-president-ready-meet-abbas-report-112526563.html)Israel's hawkish president-elect Reuven Rivlin, who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, has said he is willing to meet Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas, a newspaper reported Thursday. "I met with Abu Mazen (Abbas) in the past on a number of occasions and I will also meet with him in the future," the Yediot Aharo**t newspaper quoted Rivlin as saying. Rivlin said he received a letter from Abbas after he was elected on June 10 to succeed elder statesman Shimon Peres, whose term ends in late July. The incoming president is a staunch backer of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and has never hidden his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state.




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