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(18 Dec 2014) Israel on Thursday expressed disapproval after Palestinians at the United Nations set a deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from lands captured nearly 50 years ago by the end of 2017.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Paul Hirschson, said that the unilateral steps taken by the Palestinians showed "the degree that the Palestinians will go to to avoid negotiations with Israel."
"Rather than pursue conflict resolutions, they are pursuing conflict, and this conflict will only get resolved across the negotiating table. It would be prudent of the international community to explain this truth to the Palestinians and to encourage them to get back to the negotiating table," Hirschson said.
The draft, sponsored by Jordan on behalf of the Palestinians, sets the end of 2017 as a deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from war-won lands the Palestinians are seeking for a state.
The deadline has been pushed back from that of November 2016 in the earlier draft.
Israel fiercely opposes any suggestions that the Security Council can set a framework for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which broke down again in the spring after the two sides couldn't agree on the ground rules.
The resolution also welcomes the idea of holding an international conference to launch negotiations on reaching a peace agreement.
The Palestinians have been pressing for some sort of action in the UN's most powerful body.
Council member Jordan sponsored the resolution after a day of talks among Arab states.
The United States was scrambling on Wednesday to avert a showdown at the Security Council.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was talking to European and Arab foreign ministers about a potential meeting this weekend in the Middle East, possibly with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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