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WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu acknowledged the differences that divide them even as they emphasized areas of agreement over the peace process, Iran and democratic changes in the Middle East after their White House meeting Friday. Netanyahu flatly rejected any return to the 1967 borders, the basis – along with agreed land swaps – for a deal with the Palestinians as laid out in a speech by Obama the day before. RELATED: 'Obama says Netanyahu unable to make peace' PM meets with Obama amid tensions between J'lem, US “While Israel is prepared to make...

Osama called for a contiguous Palestinian state. If you look at a map, you can clearly see this can only be done by splitting Israel in half.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for talks in Washington on Friday saying that U.S. President Barack Obama's vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave Israel "indefensible." "The viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of Israel's existence," he said in a statement before flying to the United States for scheduled talks with Obama.((snip)) Saeb Erekat, a former chief peace negotiator, said: "Abbas expresses his appreciation of the continuous efforts exerted by President Obama with the objective of resuming the permanent status talks in the hope of reaching...

In a major speech that sought to reframe U.S. policy in the Mideast, President Barack Obama endorsed a key Palestinian demand Thursday for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation that is based on "permanent occupation." Obama's urging that a Palestinian state be based on 1967 borders — those that existed before the Six-Day War in which Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza — marked a significant shift in U.S. policy and seemed certain to anger Israel. Israel has said an endorsement of the...

<p>It appears that Netanyahu is giving Obama the finger. No further details yet.</p>

President Obama, delivering his first major address tackling the uprisings in the Middle East, on Thursday endorsed Palestinians' demand for their own state based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war. Though the move is likely to aggravate the Israelis, Obama said the United States' commitment to Israeli security is "unshakable." He also rejected attempts by the Palestinians to gain recognition for their own state before the United Nations. Until Thursday, the U.S. position had been that the Palestinian goal of a state based on the 1967 borders, with agreed land swaps, should be reconciled with...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that will likely infuriate Israel. Israel says the borders of a Palestinian state have to be determined through negotiations.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended President Obama's call for further democratization in the Arab world but expressed deep disappointment that he called for Israel's return to the pre-June 1967 borders. "We welcome the President's recognition of Israel's security needs and that Hamas cannot be a partner in the peace process, but a call to a return to 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations, even with 'land swaps' is a non-starter, when at least half of the Palestinian rulers are committed to Israel's destruction," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, founder and dean, and associate dean of the Simon...

President Obama's call this afternoon for Israel and the Palestinians to redraw boundaries based on 1967 lines has already generated backlash. "The dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation," the president said in a wide-ranging, Mideast speech at the State Department. "The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that will likely infuriate Israel. Israel says the borders of a Palestinian state have to be determined through negotiations.

Today President Obama called for any Israeli/Palestinian peace agreement to be based on the pre-June 1967 borders:(snip)Forgetting for a moment whether Obama was right or wrong for making that declaration, there is a serious problem with his statement…the pre-June 1967 borders do not exist! What President Obama refuses to admit is that there is no such thing as pre-1967 borders. That “green line” running through the West Bank is the 1949 Armistice Line.

Senior official says Hamas will never recognize Israel, hopes that "next generation will liberate the land" if Palestinian state does not encompass all of Israel. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said on Wednesday Hamas would be willing to accept a state on 1967 borders. Hamas would accept a Palestinian state "on any part of Palestine," he said in an interview with Maan, marking the first time Hamas publically stepped back from its goal of a Palestinian state "from the river to the sea." At the same time, Zahar said that Hamas would not recognize Israel, because doing so would "cancel...

I can't explain how angry I felt when Obama once again threw Israel under the bus with those words. Well Barry I strongly disagree with you and want to tell you that you do not speak for me and a whole host of others here in the USA who STAND WITH ISRAEL, that's right I STAND WITH ISRAEL ad I have no problem with it. This post is a call to action, a peaceful call to action. This isn't the time to sit still. What can you do? 1. Take a Stand for Israel by registering it here on this...

Hamas has said it is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but "will not recognise Israel". Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas political leader, reaffirmed Hamas's stance towards Israel and clarified his comments as relayed earlier by Jimmy Carter, the former US president. "We accept a state on the June 4 line with Jerusalem as capital, real sovereignty and full right of return for refugees but without recognising Israel," Meshaal said. The Hamas leader was making his first public comments following two meetings with Carter in Damascus last week. Carter,...

resident Bush will try to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today that a return to 1967 borders is a starting point for resuming peace talks, officials said. After weekend meetings with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and top U.S. aides just back from the Mideast, Bush's White House sitdown with Sharon is a last hurdle to creating a U.S. peace plan."He [Bush] won't draw a map and we're not going to start proposing borders. ... The 1967 borders are seen more as a beginning," said a U.S. official familiar with the plan.'Committed to Peace'Bush has embraced a Saudi peace proposal...