Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tokyo, on May 13, 2014. Photo: GPO.

Ynet – Israel isn’t ready to give up on the peace process with the Palestinians despite the collapse of U.S. brokered negotiations at the end of last April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Japanese publication Mainichi Shimbun during his state visit to the country on Tuesday.

“I don’t think that we should give up the hope for peace,” said Netanyahu, who continued to lay out his vision for a two-state future. “The format for peace is a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state of Israel.”

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