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Netanyahu Objects to Obama's Backing of 1967 Borders

Prime minister says the old lines are 'indefensible'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 19, 2011 3:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has tweeted its response to President Obama’s Middle East speech—and the prime minister isn’t happy with Obama’s support for a peace plan based on Israel’s 1967 borders. “The viability of a Palestinian state ... cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state,” the office said in one of a series of tweets compiled by ABC's Political Punch blog. Another said Israel wants Obama to reaffirm a letter from George W. Bush in 2004 that did not call for a return to the 1967 borders.

“Those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines,” the tweets continue. They also say “Palestinian refugees will settle in a future Palestinian state rather than in Israel.” In any event, Netanyahu and Obama can hash it out in person tomorrow when they meet.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011.   (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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COMMENTS
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Mr_Joshua
May 20, 2011 5:00 PM CDT
Cripes ! Are you guys still at this? You're like a pack of dogs fighting over the same bone. No-one will get it and you'll all end up tired and dribbling. Rocky, are your fingers tired yet ?? And you can call me.................Mr Joshua 
Buckshot
May 20, 2011 12:44 PM CDT
Once these people were done wrong, now they are the wrong doers. They just keep taking land that is not theirs to take. Israel's additude is responsible for the middle east problems, we should send troops to liberate Palestine's land, what a bunch of bullies.  Israel was the biggest mistake of the twentieth century. 
Naked_Emperor
May 20, 2011 12:17 PM CDT
 If Arab nations would have excepted Israel's right to exist, I don't know, say 50 or so years ago, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

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