Posted on 04/22/2010 12:11:10 AM PDT by kress
Prime Minister's Office confirms Wall Street Journal report stating Netanyahu conveyed to Obama rejection of demand for construction freeze in east Jerusalem
Israel standing its ground. US administration officials met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides in Jerusalem, amid American pressure on Israel for gestures and concessions to enable indirect peace talks with the Palestinians.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported that Netanyahu conveyed a message to US President Barak Obama last week according to which Israel rejects the US demand for a full construction freeze in east Jerusalem. Sources from the Prime Minister's Office confirmed the report, which was based on diplomatic sources in Washington.
According to the report, American officials do not believe Netanyahu's stance is the end of negotiations. The sources said the prime minister agreed to discuss nearly a dozen other points that were raised in talks between the parties, including the release of Palestinian prisoners, a lift of the blockade on the Gaza Strip, and the removal of roadblocks in the West Bank.
Netanyahu reportedly also agreed to discuss, in detail, the issue of borders and Jerusalem's status in all direct and indirect negotiations.
On Wednesday, US National Security Council Middle East Senior Director Dan Shapiro and David Hale, a deputy of US Mideast envoy George Mitchell, met with Netanyahu's envoy on the Palestinian matter Yitzhak Molcho.
The PMO said the response conveyed to the Americans is part of a process of "ongoing dialogue aimed at promoting the peace process" and refused to comment on the content of the talks held with the Americans.
However, the sources stressed that Netanyahu's stance, as presented in an interview to ABC earlier this week, has not changed.
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I wonder in Netanyahu used the expression ‘FUBO!”
Or, did he have his “middle” finger out when he told Obama to pound sand?
He should reject anything these commies do.
It’s not US demand Mr. Prime Minister.
Barry O’Bummer doesn’t speak for us. We’re on your side.
Bibi you keep telling Obama to go right straight to hell. Real Americans got your back.
Honestly, I never thought I would see foreign policy be so bad after Jimmy Carter.
Yippee Ki Yay, FUBO!
My fellow co religionists in America don't appreciate her, but the Israeli Jews have a better sense of reality -- especially because it can be short and sweet (figure of speech) over there.
Zer0 is’nt worth the insult.
The free world needs a strong advocate and the American electorate gives us a novice unworthy to be a Boy Scout. A communist egomaniac.
Yo BiBi, hold your ground and tell this marxist punk to go F himself.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Israel seems to be reacting with considerable restraint to the fact that the new administrion, led by the White House, intends to see them destroyed.
And all to appease Moslem “friends” worldwide who hate us and hold us in the most blithe imaginable contempt.
Hip hip hurray for Bibi.
Bibi will hold the fort, but things will change if Israel replaces him with a lefty, and don’t think that Rahm and Ozero arent working on that.
If Israel just keeps expanding settlements then one day there won’t be any Palestinians left. Sounds like a “path to peace” to me.
I need help here. Can someone explain why Obama doesn’t want people to build? What say does he have? I could tell Germans to not drink beer but would they listen? Or lastly could it be that Obama hates Jews and wants them out of the country?
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