PM meets US president, rejects Obama land-concession plan

[azurnoir]

Source: JPost

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he was prepared to make compromises to achieve peace but he rejected President Barack Obama's proposal that Israel return to 1967 borders.

Obama and Netanyahu met at the White House a day after the US president endorsed a longstanding Palestinian demand on the borders for their future state.

The US president said that any final solution must include two states, Israel and a Palestinian state, which exist viably on each others borders.

Netanyahu said that while the refugee issue needed to be resolved, it could not be resolved within Israel's borders

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221499

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this is a cross post from the I/P forum but considering it involves a between the POTUS and Israel's PM it is also US news

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "land-concession plan"

Interesting editorial decision.

[Mr. Jefferson]

5. Indeed, how about: The spoils of war exemption plan.

[MilesColtrane]

6. So was referring to the President's plan as a "final solution".

No one saw that and said, "Wait a minute" before it went to press?

How about substituting the phrase "lasting peace"?

[Turborama]

11. That jumped right out at me, too. Isn't it a dog whistley kind of thing to use in this context?

I think so, and would not be surprised if it generated a whole lot of caustic comments and implanted some unfounded subliminal hatred towards Obama in response.

[LoisB]

2. Netanyahu

Screw Bebe.

[on point]

3. OK then. Let's go for a single secular state solution w/o ANY special rights for any religion!!

[Igel]

8. Sure.

Except the "Jew" is also an ethnicity. As such, it's as much a religious term as "Arab" or "Palestinian."

The entire nomenclature system in English is a mess, with the same terms being religious or ethnic, ethnic or legal/citizenship. I mean, it's possible for a Frenchman to be a Christian Jew from Algeria. Then when you call him "French" you don't mean ethnicity, you mean legal citizenship; he's Algerian by country of origin; Jewish by ethnicity; Xian by religion. But "French" is also an ethnicity; Jewish is also a religion.

Anyway, this messy nomenclature keeps biting us in the rump. For example, the idea that a Jewish state must be religious. It's like saying we should insist that Canada should be secular and not just for Canadians.

[on point]

9. I think that is a fair point.

Then the thing to do is to stop making Israel about anything special be it religion or ethnic group. Then it can simply follow good standard practice in accord with human righs standards and a special state is no longer needed.

All the people who live there, and the 6 million forced out can live in one big secular, non ethnic, non special case state. SImple.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. "6 million forced out?" What "6 million?" Who are you talking about?

[on point]

12. The palestinians that Israel doesn't want to let return.

[tootrueleft]

4. This is getting embarrasing. Cut the aid and back the palestinian statehood anouncement.

This '1967s boorders are indefensible' stuff is crap. Israels got 200+ nukes and weaponry generations ahead of anybody else in the region.

[Ramulux]

7. Benjamin Netanyahu

is a very sick individual. Check out this video of him bragging about stopping the Oslo Accords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug&feature=player_embedded