(Updates with the citation of Perry in the third paragraph, fifth analyst).
April 6 (Bloomberg) - leaders of Israeli companies and public figures, including former heads of Shin Bet and Mossad intelligence agencies, proposed a regional peace plan, saying: it was essential that the Government revive the negotiations.The proposal provides for the establishment of statehood in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and sets out a framework for Jerusalem that would allow the city to be a capital to the Palestinians and Israelis. It includes a plan for peace with the Syria and Lebanon.Israel "is no longer a privilege to sit around doing nothing", Jacob Perry, former Director of the internal security service Shin Bet said at a press conference in Tel Aviv today. "The Government of Israel and its leader must take the initiative."Palestinian officials have said they are preparing to seek the recognition of the State of the General Assembly of the United Nations in September, regardless of the question of whether the peace talks are to move forward. The proposal also comes as a wave of sweeping movements pro-democracy throughout the Arab world, which has already led to the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who have often served as mediator between Israel and the Palestinians. "" Current silence is demanding a diplomatic price to Israel that he cannot continue to pay, "said Jonathan Spyer, political scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel. "This initiative is the move of the opening of a public pressure campaign to put Netanyahu on the spot to get a proposal of its own on the table."Increased UrgencyU.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday that Mideast turmoil increases the urgency for a peace agreement between Israel and peace talks .israeli-Palestinian Palestinians collapsed one month last year. Chairman of the authority Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas said that he would not continue negotiations negotiated in the U.S. unless Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended a freeze on 10 months on the construction of the colony, a condition the Israeli leader rejected.Netanyahu spokesman, Mark Regev, has refused to comment on plan today. Members of the group said Netanyahu, who has said that a Palestinian State should only through a negotiated peace agreement, he received a copy of the initiative. "This is the kind of program Netanyahu is extremely unlikely that to accept,"said Spyer. "It is impossible that he would accept it before of negotiations".Not OfficialPalestinian negotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh said that, while each peace initiative should be encouraged, that one is official. "This comes at a time when the Israeli Government has no initiative whatsoever,"Shtayyeh said in an interview on the phone. "The Israelis must sign this initiative."The Israel Peace Initiative, as it is called the plan, is encouraged by Perry. former Chief of the Mossad, Danny Yatom. former Lieutenant-General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, the former military Chief of staff; and Idan Ofer, shareholder and former President of Israel Corp., a holding company with interests in shipping, chemicals and loading stations for electric cars.Plan for Israel calls accept as a framework for negotiations, the Arab initiative of 2002 proposing peace between Israel and the Arabs countries once that Israel withdraws from land captured in the 1967 Middle East war. These territories include the Golan Heights and West Bank.Ofer said that in business abroad "he was clearly me more than once that if here, the situation is not improving, Israeli companies employing thousands of people will be injured."Netanyahu remains today in Berlin, where he will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss efforts to revive peace talks.-With the help of Tanya Habjouqa in Jerusalem. Editors: Heather Langan, Louis Meixler.
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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew j. Barden at barden@bloomberg.
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