(BBC). "Netanyahu will tell Obama: We're willing to engage in a process whose end is a regional peace accord,"Barak told Channel 2 TV. He stopped short of saying that Mr Netanyahu would back a two-state solution while in Washington in the coming week, but suggested an independent Palestinian state could emerge from a revived peace process.
"The Arabs say 'two states,' [and] I don't see a reason why Netanyahu would not say that at the end of an accord... there will be two peoples living side by side in peace and mutual respect," he said. Mr Barak said he thought such an agreement could be reached between Israel and its neighbours within three years, and take another five years to implement.
However, some members of Mr Netanyahu's Likud party cast doubt on Mr Barak's views. Transport Minister Yisrael Katz said the prime minister would "oppose any creation of an armed Palestinian state on Israel's borders, which would endanger Israel's security," the AFP news agency reporte
