Posted on 07/06/2010 8:14:32 AM PDT by honestabe010
Prime Minister to present U.S. President with outline of new policy ideas regarding the peace process, with goal of transitioning from proximity talks to direct negotiations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Monday evening to meet with President Barack Obama for the fifth time since the two leaders took office.
A senior source in Jerusalem said that Netanyahu hoped the meeting would enable him to regain Obama's trust after months of tension regarding West Bank settlement construction. Netanyahu was planning to present Obama with a number of proposals for coordinating progress in the Middle East peace process, said the source.
Netanyahu and Obama have not yet managed to establish close and intimate working relations since taking leadership of their respective countries. The level of trust between the two appears very low, making it difficult to yield significant progress in the peace process.
Obama is not convinced that Netanyahu is serious in his declared intentions regarding the process, and the Israeli premier is not confident that the current American administration is committed to maintaining the same relations with Israel as those held by its predecessors.
Netanyahu will present Obama with a few new ideas for the political process, and he hopes that the consolidation of a new policy outline will assist the two countries in overcoming the "hurdles" that will surface when the temporary settlement freeze ends in September.
The prime minister has spent the last few days before his trip meeting with senior Israeli ministers to sort out the new ideas.
Netanyahu is still debating whether to enter direct negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with an agenda focused solely on a permanent peace settlement or to base the talks on a temporary arrangement whereby a Palestinian state would be built in stages.
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REGAIN OBAMA”S TRUST??????? Should be the OTHER way around!!!
If the tone of this article is accurate I’m surprised. Bibi isn’t normally one to bow and scrape. He’s “trying to regain the trust” of Obama? pppfffttt...how about the other way around?
I wonder if Chuckie Schumer gets a phote op with the two of them...or if he even wants one..
So Obama is insisting on concession from Israel to demonstrate its commitment to a peace process. Okay, so what concessions is he asking for from the Palestinians to demonstrate their commitment? Oh, I see. Just Israeli concessions. Some "process".
Agreed, although I give Netanyahu credit for having enough brains to know what most Freepers already know: Zero can NEVER be trusted!
hogwash!.....................
I hope its more to undermine the 85% guaranteed votes and $upport of American Jews for the anti-Israel DNC. Don’t beg, Mr. Netanyahu, let Obama continue to treat you like dirt, so more Americans understand the nature of the beast in DC.
The headline is backwards.
Bibi Netanyahu is far too intelligent to mistake the goof-in-chief as wanting to have trusting relationship.
He knows that he will have to bow and scrape a little bit, then go it alone.
Bambi has stated that he stands with the Moose-limbs, above all.
We should take him at his word, this time.
Absolutely correct. This is nothing but another opportunity for Obama to cater to his Muslim coreligionists and get Jews killed.
” HOPING TO REGAIN OBAMA’S TRUST?” Is this the actual headline??? I though Orwell was dead!
Ditto...I was like “WTF!?” when I saw the articles title....
The only way he could regain Obama’s trust is to agree to ethnically cleanse all Jews from the Holy Land.
Bibi is hoping to regain BAMBI’S trust???? Is this a joke?
Oblahblah-the-Kenyan-muslim has done his utmost best to offend one of our strongest allies. I just hope Netanyahu doesn’t turn his back on him.
10 bucks he doesn’t address congress and then bash our laws....
What, no takers?
What a joke. the unnamed source is unnamed
I am totally flummoxed by this whole meeting thing.
I wonder what Bibi has up his sleeve. A skunk bomb I hope?
http://www.romow.com/culture-blog/skunk-bomb-israel-takes-chemical-warfare-to-a-stinky-new-level/
The Prime Minister is coming in to give Obama an opportunity to restore Obama’s trust. Take him on, Bibi. Take him down and put your knee on the back of his neck.
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