Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas

President Mahmoud Abbas: Abbas spoke to about 300 Israeli students in the West Bank city of Ramallah two weeks before Netanyahu meets President Barack Obama in Washington as an April deadline looms in negotiations for a two-state solution, according to Reuters. "But we do not seek either to flood Israel with millions of refugees or to change its social composition," Abbas said and West Bank - Addressing a sticking point in U.S.-brokered peace talks, President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday dismissed charges by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted to "flood" Israel with Palestinian refugees. He said the Palestinians wanted to keep alive the refugee issue in the talks resumed after a three-year freeze in July under U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's tutelage, to ensure a resolution of the rights of Palestinians who fled or were driven away during 1948 hostilities when Israel was founded. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.