The Voice of Palestine quoted Yasser Abed Rabbo, the PLO's secretary-general, as saying that "the situation in which one side will be bound by the agreements forever while the other side violates them to the point of annulling them entirely cannot continue."

"If Israel continues with its current policy, a moment may come when we will reexamine these agreements," Abed Rabbo said, adding that the Palestinians want to lay down a new set of principles for the negotiations so they will focus more on borders rather than territory.

According to Abed Rabbo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "forming an alliance with the American Right to weaken President Barack Obama's government." Abed Rabbo, also a member of Palestinian negotiating team, accused Netanyahu of obstructing direct peace negotiations between the two sides.

"Netanyahu gives excuses that he can't move toward freezing settlement due to the situation in his coalition,” he said.

On Friday, Netanyahu reiterated his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying that only then they will be ready to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Netanyahu said during a meeting of worldwide Jewish leaders in Jerusalem that peace must be based on a mutual agreement. He said that only when Israel's partners in peace agree to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state, they would be ready to end the conflict with Israel.

Abed Rabbo said that by raising the demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state Netanyahu is trying to "judaize what is left of the historic Palestinian land.

"According to the extremist Right, the Jewish homeland includes all of historic Palestine," he said.

He stressed that "the Palestinian leadership would never yield to Netanyahu's conditions, mainly recognizing the state of Israel as a Jewish state." The PLO official revealed that the Arab League followup committee "would convene in mid-November and discuss the results that the peace negotiations had reached amid Netanyahu's stubbornness in relation to settlement freeze." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas earlier last week said in an interview with the Israeli Television Channel I that Netanyahu had rebuffed his proposal to make an undeclared freeze of settlement construction "because he is afraid that his coalition would collapse." The Palestinians suspended the direct peace talks with Israel on Oct. 2, four weeks after the US-sponsored talks were launched in Washington.

The Palestinian decision was made after the Israeli government refused to extend a 10-month moratorium on freezing settlement construction that ended on Sept. 26.