Merkel backs Obama push for 1967 Israel border deal

[steve2470]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43106509/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she supported U.S. President Barack Obama's policy speech on the Middle East, and that basing a peace agreement on Israel's 1967 borders could be the way forward.

"I think the proposal of taking the 1967 border and of considering the exchange of territory -- considering it and not dogmatically adhering to it -- would be a good and manageable path," Merkel told a news conference.

Obama outlined his Middle East strategy in a major address on Thursday and set out his vision of the principles of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

He called for a deal resulting in two states, Israel and Palestine, largely sharing the border that existed before Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

[earthside]

1. The 1947 UN partition ...

... ought to be the starting place, in my opinion.

[MadBadger]

2. a starting point without jerusalem will never ever happen

Nor do I think it should

[and-justice-for-all]

3. I agree...

Israel has stolen so much land from the Palastineians, it should be considered a crime against Humanity.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. There's that bullshit propganda map again.

It's so sad how many think this is representative of anything. Whatever.