Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak admits that the world will not tolerate the continuation of the regime's rule over the Palestinian nation.

Barak held Tel Aviv's hawkish government responsible for strained relations with Washington, saying it has to understand that the world would not bear decades more of Israeli rule on the Palestinians, Israeli media reported Monday.

"The world isn't willing to accept — and we won't change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades more," Barak told Israeli Radio.

"It's something that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world," he added.

Barak expressed concern about a recent row between the Tel Aviv regime and the administration of US President Barack Obama which erupted after Israel announced a plan to construct 1,600 new settlement units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) during a landmark visit by Vice President Joe Biden, aimed at promoting indirect peace talks with the Palestinians.

"We have strong ties with the United States, a bond, long-term friendship and strategic partnership. We receive three billion dollars from them each year; we get the best planes in the world from them," said Barak.

"For all these reasons we must act to change things," he added.

Barak has also raised the prospect of reshaping Israel's government so that it could resume peace talks with the Palestinians.

"With a broad readiness to go for a [peace] agreement, Israeli governments have overcome many obstacles in the daily discourse with the Americans," Barak said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to heed international calls for a complete freeze in illegal settlement activities, which violate the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 446, 452 and 465.

The US-mediated peace negotiations remained stalled as Tel Aviv ignored Palestinian and US calls for a halt to settlement activities on Palestinian land.

Israel seized al-Quds along with the West Bank from Jordan in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in defiance of calls from the international community.

The regime claims the holy city as its "eternal, indivisible" capital, while the Palestinian Authority wants at least the implementation of the UN resolutions, which assign the control of the eastern part of the city to Palestinians.

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