Obama Tells Israel: Go Back To 1967 Bborders

...and from the BBC...

"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Barack Obama's call for peace with the Palestinians based on pre-1967 borders."

Israel doesn't like lol

"He (Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu) said the old borders did not take into account the "demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years" ...soooo, no thank you, we own it now... next question...

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BBC News - Israel PM defiant over Obama border proposals

 

Tell us. How many expert first term Presidents were there? Wouldnt anyone one elected Prez the first time be a novice? Dumbest statement In the whole thread.

 

No. We do that one ourselves.

 

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

Okay, so can anyone tell me why BO decided to make this statement? Maybe Israel could do more or be a better ally but I'd choose them in a second over the Palestinians and Hamas, wouldn't you? Doesn't appear BO feels the same way.

 

YES! Any sympathy I may have had for the Palestinians vaporized on 9/11 when I saw them burning the American flag and dancing in the streets because America had been attacked.

 

Yes. I'm sure every Palestinian was doing so. Every single one of them.

 

Maybe thats why he said it. So perhaps Israel would start being a better ally.

 

Hogwash. Just another tired cliche. Figures.

 

I think we ought to give the Palestinians all the land they had just prior to 1947. That should make them real happy.

 

So would I but methinks you read a bit too much into this.
Has the President approached the Palestinians and Hamas about being our ally to anyone's knowledge?

Craig might be on to something here.
Perhaps he said it to make Israel think. It certainly got Netanyahu's attention.

 

It looks like Obama has upset a lot of Jewish people:

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Some prominent Jewish Americans are rethinking their support for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid after he effectively called on Israel to give back territory it has occupied since 1967 to Palestinians. The backlash after Obama's keynote speech on the Middle East has Democratic Party operatives scrambling to mollify the Jewish community as the president prepares to seek a second term in the White House.
Obama on Thursday called for any new Palestinian state to respect the borders as they were in 1967, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him bluntly that his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic.


"He has in effect sought to reduce Israel's negotiation power and I condemn him for that," former New York Mayor Ed Koch told Reuters.
Koch said he might not campaign or vote for Obama if Republicans nominate a pro-Israel candidate who offers an alternative to recent austere budgetary measures backed by Republicans in Congress.
Koch donated $2,300 to Obama's campaign in 2008, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. "I believed that then-Senator Obama would be as good as John McCain based on his statements at the time and based on his support of Israel. It turns out I was wrong," he said. Despite the stormy reaction to Obama's remarks, some commentators noted talk of the 1967 borders was nothing new.
"This has been the basic idea for at least 12 years. This is what Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were talking about at Camp David, and later, at Taba," Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on The Atlantic website.
"This is what George W. Bush was talking about with Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. So what's the huge deal here?" Exit polls from the 2008 election showed 78 percent of Jewish voters chose Obama over his Republican rival Senator McCain.


"I have spoken to a lot of people in the last couple of days -- former supporters -- who are very upset and feel alienated," billionaire real estate developer and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman said.
"He'll get less political support, fewer activists for his campaign, and I am sure that will extend to financial support as well."

 

What? No mention of his chutzpah?

 

I think the main diffrence is he has actualy come out and stated it openly, the others have hinted at it

 

Yes, and I think that was his mistake.

 

Its just Israelis. Does that make you a liar?

 

How does that make him a liar?

 

Somehow I seriously doubt it.

 

He did it rather openly actually.

 

That is just his vernacular for anyone he disagrees with. So far, he is the one proven to make up facts to fit his stories.