European-led efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict are being resisted by Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br /><br /> After his meeting with his Italian counterpart on Monday, the Israeli leader is due for more talks today with US Secretary of state John Kerry in London.<br /><br /> Israel has warned the US it expects Washington’s support in vetoing a Jordanian backed draft United Nations resolution putting a 2016 deadline on a withdrawl from land Palestinians seek for a state.<br />It’s territory Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.<br /><br /> France is also leading a bid among Europeans to draft a resolution with a less definitive timetable before Israel’s March 17 election.<br /><br /> Although the US has said it could not accept the Jordanian backed, Palestinian-drafted proposal, Kerry has indicated the US position is not yet fixed and a modified resolution could still be of interest.<br /><br /> The Palestinians are hoping the draft resolution will be put in some form before the UN Security Council on Wednesday.<br /><br /> Since Israeli Palestinian peace talks collapsed last April several European parliaments have voted in support of Palestinian statehood in non.binding UN resolutions.
