MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Radicals are trying to use the lack of dialogue between Israel and Palestine to antagonize one another and this practice seems to be working, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Friday.
"Radicals are trying to use the lack of dialogue between Israel and Palestine. Unfortunately, this is working. According to opinion polls, the antagonism between the Palestinians and Israelis has been steadily growing," Bogdanov said.
He also noted that there are not favorable conditions so far for holding peace talks between Palestine and Israel.
"In 2005, Russia, as you remember, promoted the idea of holding an international conference on the Middle East in Moscow. It was supposed that this forum would be held when the parties of the conflict progressed seriously to the dialogue… However, favorable conditions for the implementation of our initiative are not right yet," Bogdanov said.
