Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; OCCUPIED JERUSALEM -- A dispute over the agenda of the next round of the direct peace talks, scheduled to resume this Tuesday in Egypt, arose between Palestinian de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz newspaper said on Sunday.
The newspaper explained that Israel calls for negotiating over the issues of security measures and the Palestinian recognition of the Jewish state, while the Palestine liberation organization insists on discussing the issue of demarcating the borders of the future Palestinian state.
Israel, for its part, declined a US request demanding it to extend its alleged freeze on settlement construction in the Palestinian lands for four months.
In another context, Shabak director Yuval Diskin hailed Abbas's security apparatuses for their serious role in fighting the Palestinian "terrorism" as he described, especially against the resistance factions.
In the weekly cabinet meeting, Diskin described Israel's security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and its security apparatuses as the best ever during the last sixteen years.
He pointed out that the Palestinian security apparatuses managed, for the sake of Israel, to arrest the Palestinians responsible for killing four Israeli settlers in Al-Khalil city and wounding others near Ramallah city.
In this regard, Abbas's security militias kidnapped more than 35 Palestinians affiliated with Hamas in the cities of Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem and Qalqiliya and summoned many others, according to the latest reports received by the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Monday.
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