Posted on 05/24/2011 10:05:33 AM PDT by tobyhill
In an address to a joint meeting of Congress, Israel's prime minister pledged to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians, but said he would not agree to any deal that threatens Israel's security or its identity as a Jewish state.
Netanyahu, who received a rapturous reception from lawmakers on both sides of the political divide, said Israel wants and needs peace but repeated his flat rejection of a return to what he called the "indefensible" borders that existed before the 1967 Mideast war. He also restated Israel's refusal to entertain the return of millions of Palestinian refugees and their families to land in Israel. And, he maintained that Jerusalem, claimed by both sides as their capital, could not be divided.
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Obama has not called for a return to the exact borders that Israel held before capturing east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War of June 1967. He, like the Palestinians, is open to land swaps so Israel can hold on to settlements it built after the 1967 war. Obama has not, however, offered proposals for how to return the two sides to the bargaining table. The Palestinians are refusing to come back as long as Israeli settlement construction continues.
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Fox likes to posture as 'Right Wing' and simultaneously deny it - it's all part of their Murdoch tabloid image. When someone gets really hard edge - see Glenn Beck & E.D. Hill - that person doesn't last.
Rush predicted that the media would paint this amazing speech as some kind of Obama victory the minute the speech was over. The media in this country is a joke!
And won´t receive squat from them when their very existence is threatened.
The Obama Machine begins its spin. Rush predicted this angle of liberal attack and spin less than an hour ago!
Jack.
He also restated Israel’s refusal to entertain the return of millions of Palestinian refugees and their families to land in Israel.
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If you had a cancerous kidney removed from your body, would you agree to let them put it back?
I dunno bout y'all, but there’d be a whole gaggle of Texans packing up their gear and spoilin to lock horns.
How bout the average Israeli family? Could you imagine the shock after hearing O-bozo say what he did?
The nice word “putz” comes to mind first.
Hussein called for negotiations to begin based on 1967 borders!!! THOSE WERE HIS WORDS!! MSNBC is incredibly dishonest, just like all leftists!!!
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