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Front Page Mag: Israel Bows to Obama’s 1967 Borders Pressure Posted By P. David Hornik On August 3, 2011 @ 12:10 am Media reports quote anonymous Israeli officials saying Israel has decided, after all, to negotiate a two-state arrangement with the...
- Don Barack Corleone Makes Bibi An Offer He Thinks He Can't Refuse
Something about fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads and Nancy Pelosi sleeping with horses. . . No independent confirmation that Bibi replied "Vaffanculo a Lei, la sua moglie, e' la sua madre. Lei e' un cafone stronzo. Io non mangio in questo...
- Dissent In The Ranks
The Hill: Hoyer bucks Obama on Israeli borders By Mike Lillis - 05/22/11 10:57 AM ET Pushing back against President Obama, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested Sunday that Israel should not be required to shrink its borders as a precondition...
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Spencer: Obama Throws Israel to the Dogs From Robert Spencer: It was widely reported Thursday evening that Obama was calling for a return to the 1967 borders, but this is not the case. He actually called for the creation of a “sovereign and contiguous...
- That Went Well.. .
Some folks just don't like being thrown under the bus INN: Israel Expects Obama to Take Back ‘1967 Lines’ Demand by Gil Ronen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was quick on the draw Thursday in voicing clear displeasure with President Barack...
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White House continues to press the border issue despite no sign from the Palestinians that they are willing to negotiate
From PJM:
These words were spoken by Binyamin Netanyahu in his photo-op with Barack Obama after their May 20 meeting:Page 1 of 2 Next ->…while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines — because these lines are indefensible…. Remember that, before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide. It was half the width of the Washington Beltway. And these were not the boundaries of peace; they were the boundaries of repeated wars, because the attack on Israel was so attractive.He reiterated the message to Congress on May 24 to ringing bipartisan applause. A subsequent poll revealed that 77 percent of Israelis oppose a withdrawal to the “1967 borders” (actually the 1949 armistice lines, devoid of any political significance).
So we can’t go back to those indefensible lines….
We’ve been around for almost 4,000 years…. We’ve gone through expulsions and pogroms and massacres and the murder of millions….
And now it falls on my shoulders as the prime minister of Israel…to work with you to fashion a peace that will ensure Israel’s security and will not jeopardize its survival. I take this responsibility with pride but with great humility, because…we don’t have a lot of margin for error. And because, Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.
Yet, heartfelt, eloquent, and humanly impressive as Netanyahu’s words to Obama on May 20 were, the latter reportedly responded afterward by going into a rage and shouting: “What the f—k was that?” Whether or not that’s accurate, Obama’s ensuing political behavior clearly manifests his attitude toward Netanyahu’s, and the Israeli people’s, acute concern about the territorial aspect of their security: total contempt.
That was evident at the G8 meeting on May 27, when Obama and all the other leaders present — except Canada’s Stephen Harper, who foiled the move — sought to include a mention of Israel’s 1967 borders in the meeting’s final communiqué. And it continues to be evident in the current flurry of diplomatic activity in Jerusalem and Ramallah, in which “the American officials [Middle East envoy David Hale and Middle East adviser Dennis Ross] are …promoting … Obama’s initiative to base renewed negotiations on the June 4, 1967, lines with agreed land swaps.”
In doing so, the U.S. is trying to head off the Palestinians’ aim to declare a state unilaterally at the UN in September. Although the U.S. is expected to veto the attempt in the Security Council, leaving the Palestinians with a nonbinding but still significant endorsement by the General Assembly, Obama is clearly unhappy about the prospect of such a veto. So, as an enticement to return to negotiations with Israel instead of the unilateral route, he’s offering the Palestinians what Netanyahu and the Israeli people consider to be Israel on a platter: “negotiations” where Israel commits to indefensible borders in advance.
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Front Page Mag: Israel Bows to Obama’s 1967 Borders Pressure Posted By P. David Hornik On August 3, 2011 @ 12:10 am Media reports quote anonymous Israeli officials saying Israel has decided, after all, to negotiate a two-state arrangement with the...
- Don Barack Corleone Makes Bibi An Offer He Thinks He Can't Refuse
Something about fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads and Nancy Pelosi sleeping with horses. . . No independent confirmation that Bibi replied "Vaffanculo a Lei, la sua moglie, e' la sua madre. Lei e' un cafone stronzo. Io non mangio in questo...
- Dissent In The Ranks
The Hill: Hoyer bucks Obama on Israeli borders By Mike Lillis - 05/22/11 10:57 AM ET Pushing back against President Obama, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested Sunday that Israel should not be required to shrink its borders as a precondition...
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Spencer: Obama Throws Israel to the Dogs From Robert Spencer: It was widely reported Thursday evening that Obama was calling for a return to the 1967 borders, but this is not the case. He actually called for the creation of a “sovereign and contiguous...
- That Went Well.. .
Some folks just don't like being thrown under the bus INN: Israel Expects Obama to Take Back ‘1967 Lines’ Demand by Gil Ronen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was quick on the draw Thursday in voicing clear displeasure with President Barack...