'Very serious territorial concessions' a possibility

(JTA)—Israel is prepared to make “very serious territorial concessions” if the Palestinian Authority recognizes Israel’s Jewish character, senior Israeli minister Yuval Steinitz told a British newspaper.

In an interview published July 25 in The Daily Telegraph, Steinitz, Israel’s international relations minister, told The Daily Telegraph, “We are ready for a two states for two people solution.

“Both sides will have to make very significant concessions and very difficult concessions. We will probably have to make very serious territorial concessions,” he said in the July 25 interview.

But Stein...