Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called on Europeans to "make it clear to the Palestinians that failure to comply with the Quartet's conditions will be met with sanctions."
After a meeting in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet on Wednesday, Ayalon told a press conference in reference to the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement: "Today it is clear that the Palestinian Authority is reluctant to move towards peace. The fact that the PA prefers Hamas over negotiations for peace delivers a mortal blow to the process."
The Deputy Foreign Minister is visiting the Baltic nations,Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to discuss strengthening ties and promoting business partnerships.
In Tallinn, Ayalon also praised Estonia for a firm stance against anti-Semitism despite recent criticism by the Nazi-hunting Wiesenthal centre slamming Tallinn for failing to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
"Estonian authorities have been very firm to denounce any anti-Semitism, racist or xenophobic phenomena and we trust Estonian authorities completely," Israel's deputy foreign minister Daniel Ayalon told reporters Wednesday in Tallinn.
The Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Sunday criticized "the failures of countries like Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, which have consistently failed to hold any Holocaust perpetrators accountable."
"I have read that report, but that has not undermined our trust towards Estonians and Estonian authorities," Ayalon said.
During World War II Estonia, along with Baltic neighbours Latvia and Lithuania, was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940, by Nazi Germany a year later and then again by the Soviets in September 1944.
Seeing Nazi Germany as their liberator from the Soviets, thousands of Estonian, Latvians and Lithuanians joined the German army.
Moscow had been reviled in the Baltic states for having deported tens of thousands of Balts to Siberia in June 1941.
In 1948-1949 Soviets deported over 200,000 more people from the Baltic states to Siberia.