Posted on 06/10/2011 4:01:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
The White House is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly adopt President Obamas view that Israels pre-1967 border should be the basis for future peace talks.
The Obama White House appealed to Jewish leaders on Friday that the request of Israel was part of an effort to head off Palestinian plans to declare an independent state at the United Nations in September.
The request of Mr. Netanyahu was made Monday to the prime ministers top peace negotiator, Yitzhak Molcho at a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the National Security Council, according to an Israeli diplomat based in Jerusalem.
The diplomatic effort shows Mr. Obama is working to restart stalled negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state, as many close U.S. counterterrorism allies in the region fall to the recent wave of revolutionary unrest called the Arab Spring.
Israeli press reports on Monday stated that Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, met with Mr. Molcho this week. Mr. Erekat publicly denied those reports on Tuesday to the Palestine News and Information Agency.
Steven Simon, the new White House National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa, told representatives of the Jewish Community Friday during a conference call that the White House was looking to get both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government to adopt Mr. Obamas principles as a basis for negotiation, according to a recording of the call played for the Washington Times.
Mr. Obamas position is the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.
Mr. Simon, who served as the Clinton White Houses top counter-terrorism official, said the United States had about a month to head off the Palestinian plan to declare a state during the annual United Nations General Assembly...
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Thanks! Great link!
Properly, Netanyahu should present a counter-proposal of equal value as a starting point for negotiations. That counter-proposal would be the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel into Egypt and Jordan, the nationalization of all non-Jewish holy sites in Israel, and that the al-Asqa mosque be razed and replaced with a new Jewish Temple, with no other mosques allowed in the country.
Given Obama’s proposal, and this counter-proposal, then Netanyahu might suggest meeting halfway, more or less.
Israeli video regarding her border needs.
http://www.maozisrael.org/site/PageServer?pagename=maoz_1967_borders_video
Right, you never heard of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
How does bringing up an insanian iranian work for this rather hyperbolic assertion?
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I love the expression on Bibi’s face. It says it all.
NETANYAHU: “That’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it’s not going to happen. And I think it’s time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it’s not going to happen.”
What part of the word NO does Obozo not understand?
I’m putting my money on the Jew, not the muslim!!!!!
Tee hee.
Be careful, FRiend. Some of the Phillipino muzzies are murderous swine.
Those pics show the priorities of both to this day. Thanks for posting.
“Chinese proverb. One picture is worth ten thousand words.”
Obama is stuck on stupid.
umm... no.
next question
The White House is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly adopt President Obama's view that Israel's pre-1967 border should be the basis for future peace talks.IOW, the White House is run by complete jackasses.
This sounds like blackmail: Submit to Obama's final solution, or else the US will not veto the UN declaration of a new "Palestinian" state on Israeli land.
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