JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with Arab rulers last year to hear then U.S. secretary of state John Kerry pitch a regional peace plan, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. It said Kerry wanted the sides to endorse six principles, which he laid out publicly in a December speech. Kerry's parameters envisioned a Palestinian state, with Palestinians recognizing Israel as a "Jewish state." "Netanyahu did not accept Kerry's proposal and said he would have difficulty getting it approved by his governing coalition," Haaretz wrote on Sunday. Netanyahu's spokesman and Jordanian officials refused to comment on the report.

Source: The China Post February 20, 2017 16:03 UTC