© Agence France-Presse
Speaking to the most powerful pro-Israel body in the United States on Sunday, President Barack Obama laid bare his appeal for a Middle East peace deal which uses the 1967 borders as a beginning point for negotiations, saying his initial mention of those terms, which drew Israeli anger and stirred media controversy, had been misrepresented.
Speaking to the most powerful pro-Israel body in the United States on Sunday, President Barack Obama laid bare his appeal for a Middle East peace deal which uses the 1967 borders as a beginning point for negotiations, saying his initial mention of those terms, which drew Israeli anger and stirred media controversy, had been misrepresented.
Obama took his message to some 10,000 of Israel's staunchest supporters, warning Washington's pro-Israel lobby that the results of a continued stalemate in the Middle East peace process could be dire for the Jewish state.
And after twice dismissing Obama's views as "based on illusions," it was Prime Minister Netanyahu who appeared to be backing away from further confrontation, now saying he shared Obama's vision for peace.
The crux of the dispute was over Obama's call to see the borders that existed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war form the basis of a future Palestinian state.
Netanyahu summarily rejected this, interpreting it as a call to return to the actual border lines and saying they were militarily "indefensible."
But on Sunday, Obama told delegates at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee that this "misrepresented" his position because it ignored his call for mutually agreed adjustments to the border.
Comment: Ah, the obscenely materialistic joys of being a psychopath protected by other psychopaths and sheep-dipped so many times that no one knows anymore which "side" you're on. Let's be perfectly clear about what this author did not have the guts to say but which everyone knows: the ISI is the CIA. Headley was working for the psychopaths in power against humans everywhere, first sent on one errand, then another, in order to recruit susceptible, angry young Muslims and to make the war on terror seem real.