Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference for the foreign and Israeli press that he is prepared to meet Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, to put an end to the violence and move towards a wider diplomatic solution.

During the last two weeks, Palestinian terrorists carried out 23 attacks against Israelis that killed eight people and wounded at least 70.

Netanyahu said, “I’ve called on President Abbas to resume unconditional negotiations immediately. Right now as we speak we can meet … I’m willing to meet him. He’s not willing to meet me.”

The Prime Minister also expressed his support for the suggestion in the Israeli media, that US Secretary of State John Kerry will facilitate a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas, plus Jordan’s King Abdullah in the Jordanian capital Amman.

Netanyahu said, “It’s potentially useful because it might stop the wave of incitement and the false allegations against Israel. So I’d be open to meetings with Arab leaders, and Palestinian leadership in order to stop this incitement.”

However, Netanyahu acknowledged that the situation would need to calm down before serious talks about a long-term arrangement could take place. For this to happen, Netanyahu said Abbas would need to decisively end the incitement stoking the current violence. He said, “First of all we need to lower the flames. First of all this wild incitement needs to stop. We can’t advance toward peace while also promoting terror. You can’t have both terror and peace.”

Netanyahu repeated that ‘’the current terror campaign in Israel is a result of continuous Palestinian incitement.” In particular, he condemned “the outrageous claims” over the Temple Mount “that we are changing the status quo there or intend to destroy it.”

He also highlighted the “new big lie… that Israel is executing Palestinians.” ‘’Yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of putting to death, executing an innocent Palestinian boy. First of all, he's not dead - he's alive. Second, he's not innocent. The only way that we can fight this big lie is to tell the truth,’’ he said.

In a televised address to the Palestinian public, Abbas claimed Wednesday that Israel “executed” a 13-year-old Palestinian, Ahmed Manasra, but omitted to mention that he is both alive, being treated in an Israeli hospital, or that he was shot after stabbing two Israelis.

The young teen along with his 15-year old cousin had stabbed a 13-year old Israeli in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood on Tuesday.

A bloody photograph of Manasra lying on the ground after the stabbing, with wounds he sustained from Israeli security forces, was widely circulated on social media with charges that Israel had killed him in cold blood.

On Thursday Israel released photographs of the boy in pajamas with a bandaged on his head, recovering at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center.

“Yesterday Abbas accused Israel of putting to death an innocent Palestinian boy,” said Netanyahu in a reference to Manasra.

“First of all he (Manasra) is not dead, he is alive. Second, he is not innocent. He tried to kill, murder – knife to death an innocent Israel youngster, 13 years old, riding his bike,” said Netanyahu.

He noted that the person who was seriously injured in the incident was the Israeli boy, who had just left a candy store on his bicycle when he was attacked. Reporters were shown a security video of the attack.

Netanyahu called on the international community to stop giving Abbas “a pass” on such falsifications.

‘’The only way that we can fight this big lie and all the other lies that are hurled at Israel and spread in the Palestinian social network and from there to the world, is to tell the truth. This is what we will do today. We expect all our friends and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth to look at these facts, to see the truth and not to draw a false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who would stab them and knife them to death,’’ Netanyahu said.