WASHINGTON, May 15: An intensive effort by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to reopen peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians ended without a breakthrough.However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday afterwards he has identified what territory Israel can safely give up and probably will make concessions to reach an accord.Netanyahu said Israel would not yield land in ways that threaten the country's security, and he vowed never to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state or to yield part of Jerusalem."We have determined which of those areas we can disengage from," the Prime Minister said in a speech last night to the American Jewish committee.Lower-level American and Israeli specialists were directed by Albright and Netanyahu to keep trying to fashion an agreement.With Israeli officials saying no agreement was reached on any of the difficult issues, including how much territory Israel would relinquish on the West Bank, the Clinton administration seemed tohave suffered at least a temporary foreign policy setback."There is no agreement yet on the issues that were discussed," said Gadi Baltiansky, the Israeli embassy spokesman. "But they continue to be discussed," he said.Albright's spokesman James P Rubin, said: "We do have sufficient reason to continue serious work." He said Albright had ended direct talks with Netanyahu and would fly to London this weekend to join President Clinton in meetings with European leaders."It is hard to be optimistic," Rubin said after Albright completed an 80-minute meeting with Netanyahu at a hotel a few blocks from the White House on Thursday.
