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By John Terrett in Americas on November 10th, 2009
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Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a major American Jewish conference at a big hotel in Washington, DC on Monday and argued there's still life in the moribund peace process.

"My goal is to achieve a permanent peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians and soon ... it's high time that we stopped negotiating about the negotiations - lets get on with it. Lets move."

At one point, his speech was interrupted by a lone protester. "I have to say I got a better reception at the United Nations," he joked.

Among the rest of his audience, however, there was a far warmer welcome for the Israeli leader.

"I can't say whether they've done enough - enough is a hard word to say - but the attitudes - and I've been there many times - is that peace is what they want," one audience member said.