Posted on 05/22/2011 9:07:12 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: Controversy over border comments 'not based in substance' By: CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) - President Barack Obama said Sunday that any controversy over his remarks last week that Israel-Palestinian negotiations should start from pre-1967 borders and include land swaps was "not based in substance."
In his first speech as president to the main American-Israeli lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Obama said his reference to the border issue in a major policy speech on the Middle East "means that the parties themselves - Israelis and Palestinians - will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967," the eve of the six-day war in which Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza Strip and other territory.
"That's what mutually agreed-upon swaps means. It is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation," Obama said to applause. "It allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years," including the new demographic realities on the ground and the needs of both sides.
He later added: "If there is a controversy, then, it's not based in substance."
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And...anything O says is not based in reality...
He’s just a weasel.
Who you gonna believe - Obama or your lyin’ ears?
How about starting with the current lines—and working any ‘swaps’ from there?
Actually, I’d give Gaza to Egypt and have Jordan take in the rest of the Palestinians: That is, I know where I’d draw the new lines already.
1 speech and 3 days of damage control.
And he was given standing Obations! Idiots!
I call "moslem speak" on this quote by zer0.
Zer0 knows zer0 about the southern US border too.
Taquiyya
A good chunk of the population must be fighting the embarrassment of being part of his rise to the Oval Office today.
John Roberts, FNC, said he faced his most critical crowd! I say BS! He was continuously cheered on by the Idiots at AIPAC!
Was he talking about Poland in 1939, or the larger Jewish problem?
BiBi told him it’s not going to happen.
Barry can Fox Trot as much as he wants.
Yes, this idiot boy president is trying to spin his way out of a major policy blunder. And yes, he makes Israel's political position FAR more influential in the US as a result.
Obama now needs the goodwill of Bibi. Desperately so.
That whistle though his teeth he has when he talks is in fact an intentional hypnotic sound that makes the weak minded like and believe anything he says.
Zero has a knack for total decadence and destruction, like a rot lust. He has a rot pride in his islam-marxist masters, bending to them, and that is about it... and these have destroyed any pride in any group seeking a worthy master to be proud of. It’s a mush, all frenchy craddle to grave mush.
“If there is a controversy, then, it’s not based in substance.”
His usual straw man way of making a comment.
Genesis 15:18 “So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River...”
Try THOSE borders on for size, Obama!
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