The Obama face of Evil, Hatrid.
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| Netanyahu at White House for Obama talks |
| 2011-05-21 |
[Al Jazeera] US president Barack B.O.Obama's endorsement of a longstanding Paleostinian demand for a future state based on 1967 borders sets the stage for a potentially tense meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on Friday. Netanyahu, who has had strained relations with Obama, headed for Washington saying the president's vision of a Paleostinian state on the borders of 1967 - as part of his vision for an elusive US-brokered peace deal - could leave Israel "indefensible". The White House talks had never been expected to yield any significant progress to revive long-stalled peace talks, but now that prospect seems even less likely. Strained relations Obama, in a policy speech on Thursday on the "Arab spring" uprisings across the Middle East, laid down his clearest markers yet on the compromises Israel and the Paleostinians must make for resolving their decades-old conflict. "The viability of a Paleostinian state cannot come at the expense of Israel's existence" His position essentially embraces the Paleostinian view that the state they seek in the West Bank and Gazoo should largely be drawn along the lines that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel captured those territories and East Jerusalem. On the eve of Netanyahu's visit, it was seen as a message that Obama expects Israel to eventually make big concessions. "The viability of a Paleostinian state cannot come at the expense of Israel's existence," Netanyahu said in a statement before flying to the United States for his talks with Obama. Obama's first outright declaration of his stance on the contested issue of borders could help ease doubts in the Arab world about his commitment to acting as an even-handed broker. However, The ever-popular However... the Democrat president quickly came under fire from Republican critics, who accused him of betraying Israel, the closest US ally in the region. Pushing Netanyahu risks alienating Israel's base of support among the US public and in Congress as Obama seeks re-election in 2012. "This approach undermines our special relationship with Israel and weakens our ally's ability to defend itself," Eric Cantor, the Republican majority leader in the US House of Representatives, said. Israelis taken aback While Obama also had tough words for the Paleostinians, Israeli officials were especially taken aback by his blunt language, including criticism of "settlement activity" and its continued occupation of Arab lands. There was no word on whether Netanyahu, who heads a right-leaning, pro-settler coalition, had been forewarned. the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , the Paleostinian president, welcomed Obama's efforts to renew the talks that collapsed last year. Obama has little to show for his peace efforts since taking office. His last bid collapsed when he backed down from confronting Israel over settlement building in the West Bank. Despite the tensions, Obama has carved out three hours for Netanyahu on Friday, including a working lunch. However, The ever-popular However... visits have not always gone smoothly. In March of last year, Netanyahu was left waiting while Obama went to the White House residence for dinner with his family, widely seen in Israel as a snub. In Thursday's speech, Obama said: "We believe the borders of Israel and Paleostine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" of land. While this has long been the private view in Washington, Obama went further than US officials have gone in the recent past, when they described such a solution as a Paleostinian aspiration but did not embrace it as their own. Obama also delivered messages that will be hard for the Paleostinians to swallow, suggesting their effort to win UN membership for a Paleostinian state is doomed and that they have a lot of explaining to do about a reconciliation deal with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which the United States regards as a "terrorist group". To reassure Israelis, Obama committed to Israel's security and said any future Paleostinian state must be "non-militarised", something Netanyahu has demanded. But he warned Israel: "The dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation." In a pointed reply, Netanyahu said he expected "to hear a reaffirmation from president Obama of US commitments made to Israel in 2004" - an allusion to a letter by then-president George Bush suggesting Israel may keep big settlement blocs as part of any peace pact. Speaking to Al Jizz, Robert Fisk, an author and Middle East correspondent for the UK's Independent newspaper, said Netanyahu "will win" because "it is about political power and the use of political power". "I think we might see a repeat of the capitulation over settlements, maybe without the bribe of $163 a second, which it was the last time I calculated," Fisk said. Paleostinians say settlement expansion is aimed at denying them a viable state, and successive US administrations have shielded Israel from UN Security Council resolutions condemning such activity. |
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| Posted by: eagle 2011-05-21 23:35 |
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