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 Obama’s view that Israel’s 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 minister’s 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. Obama’s “principles as a basis for negotiation,” according to a recording of the call played for the Washington Times.
Mr. Obama’s 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 House’s 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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Bibi was damn clear.
I really had to look hard at this one to make sure it wasn’t satire.
Is “Never Again!” too hard for Obama to understand?
Ain’t going to happen !
So what’s Obama going to do, threaten to not borrow any money from Isreal?
Obama wants a whole lot more than 1967 boundaries. He wants to provide all of Israel an all expense paid trip to Treblinka.
Obamajad still having that wet dream? That PM Netanyahu is going to bow down to his dictate in exchange for a peace agreement that the so-called Palestinians will never keep?
I don’t think so. Obamajad is a crazy froot loop. And the UN has absolutely no authority to recognize any borders claimed by the Israeli’s. They cannot just set boundaries and they cannot make Israel accept a Palestinian state.
Never Again
Yep, can't be much clearer than that. I suspect Zer0 was distraught that anyone would be that blunt with him.
Obama can’t stand being told no.. he will have his tantrum until he gets his way
Ain’t happenin’.
obama-NO! When you give up Texas to California to the Mexicans, let’s talk.
Man you are banned.
O'Barry's just stupid. Nothing else can account for this behavior...
Note how the writer and editor turn themselves into preztels trying to hide the fact that Hillary is the one personally shoving this demand for Israeli suicide. The article actually makes it sounds like Bibi wanted it! ("The request of Mr. Netanyahu was made Monday...").
Hillary's on a rampage. They went after exposing her affiar with Huma, so now she's trying to murder everyone in Israel.
Good old reliable Hillary.
The only land swaps that Obama and “Palestine” will agree to are ones where Israel swaps its land for the sea.
The Rodhamster runs the wheel for her idol, barry the bastard. Barry hates Jews so much, one would think he was raised by Palestinians!
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