Santo Domingo.- Israel Ambassador at Large in the country, Yair Recanati, affirmed Tuesday that the success of US president Barack Obama’s mediation for peace between his nation and Palestine will depend on the latter’s control over the groups opposed to the process in that territory.

The diplomat said despite the American chief executive’s best intentions to reach peaceful agreement in the region, Obama’s top priority is to solve his country’s problems, aside from that he doesn’t have time to get the Arab leaders world’s together with those of Israel.

Interviewed in the El Dia morning program, Recanati noted that the Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, since their creation have stated their anti-Semitism, for which that nation is handicapped to seek peace with Israel, as occurred 10 years ago when then president Bill Clinton mediated in the conflict. “(Yasser) Arafat, after long debates in Camp David, couldn’t sign the agreements which had been reached, of want of control of the anti-Semitic groups nor the strategic will to ratify an agreement of understanding.”