Israel vowed on Friday to respond to the Palestinians’ decision to refer their cause to the UN General Assembly by cancelling some agreements signed under interim peace accords.
The Jewish state will “announce which agreements we are keeping and which we are not,” Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon told Israel Radio.
The General Assembly on Thursday voted in favour of upgrading the Palestinians’ status at the world body to non-member state, tacitly recognising Palestinian statehood.
Israel says the decision contravenes past peace agreements and insists that a Palestinian state can only be established through negotiations.
Ya’alon said Israel would respond when appropriate. He gave no details on which agreements the government plans to cancel.
Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to revive peace talks suspended since September 2010 over Israel’s refusal to extend a partial moratorium on building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
“We are not the ones initiating the move, it is being forced on us, and this is bad,” Livni said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the talks can resume only if Israel renews the moratorium while Netanyahu says he is willing to restart the process without conditions.
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