A ‘NO’ FROM NETANYAHU: ISRAELI PM REJECTS 1967 BORDER TALK IN FRONT OF PRESS
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:21pm by 
Jonathon M. Seidl
Jonathon M. Seidl
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 - PM NETANYAHU
RESPONDS TO OBAMA'S
THURSDAY SPEECH - 67 BORDERS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing no concrete progress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat alongside President Barack Obama on Friday and declared that Israel would not withdraw to 1967 borders to help make way for an adjacent Palestinian state. Obama had called on Israel to be willing to do just that in a speech the day earlier.
The Israeli leader said he would make some concessions but Israel will not go back to the lines from decades earlier because they would be “indefensible.”
For his part, Obama said that there were differences of formulations and language but that such disputes are going to happen “between friends.”
The president never mentioned the 1967 borders as the two men talked with reporters. The leaders spoke after a lengthy meeting in the Oval Office, amid tense times.
Obama said in his speech on Thursday that the United States supports creation of a Palestinian state based on the border lines that existed before the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel forces occupied east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. The comment drew angry criticism in Israel.
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NOTE:
AND NOW, WE AWAIT TO HEAR FROM PM NETANYAHU SPEAK TO AIPAC TOMORROW, MAY 23RD. May it be as confident and strong as his comments on Friday. "It falls on your shoulders, Bibi, to extend hope to all who support and stand with Israel. The errors in Obama's speech today must be corrected in your words to AIPAC's members, the American people, the Jewish State of Israel and to the world. "There is a time to speak and a time to be silent" .... now is the time to speak.
BeeSting
AND NOW, WE AWAIT TO HEAR FROM PM NETANYAHU SPEAK TO AIPAC TOMORROW, MAY 23RD. May it be as confident and strong as his comments on Friday. "It falls on your shoulders, Bibi, to extend hope to all who support and stand with Israel. The errors in Obama's speech today must be corrected in your words to AIPAC's members, the American people, the Jewish State of Israel and to the world. "There is a time to speak and a time to be silent" .... now is the time to speak.
BeeSting
