Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel "will be generous" in giving back land to establish a Palestinian state, but will not return to the 1967 borders and will not agree to a divided Jerusalem.
Netanyahu, in an address before a joint meeting of Congress, outlined his terms for peace following a dispute with President Obama over the boundaries of a future Palestinian state. Obama last week called for a two-state solution based on Israel's borders before the 1967 Six Day War. Netanyahu, along with pro-Israel members of Congress, said those lines would endanger the security of Israel -- a claim the prime minister repeated Tuesday. "Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967," he said. "Israel will be generous on the size of the Palestinian state, but we'll be very firm on where we put the border with it." "Peace must be anchored in security," Netanyahu said. The two leaders, though, have sought to dial back tensions following their meeting in Washin...Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that a recent wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based upon 1967 borders is pressuring Israel and the U.S. ...
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Two left-leaning groups that came under fire in December for using the disparaging term " Israel firster" in their Middle East commentary have taken sharply differen...
The U.S. and its allies changed tactics Tuesday on how to avert a crisis over a Palestinian statehood bid, as the White House announced that President Barack Obama w...
President Barack Obama will publicly push for the Palestinians to drop a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly as he scrambled to head off a dipl...
Chris Stirewalt and James Joyner discuss the alleged duscussion between Obama and Sarkozy regarding Netanyahu
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Debate over 1967 borders solution
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The Palestinians' Plan B — an alternative to the elusive peace deal with Israel — is gradually taking shape: convince as many countries as possible to recognize a Pa...
President Obama's envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell is meeting with the new Israeli government during his travels to the Middle East beginning this week, a...
The United States and its partners in the international diplomatic "quartet" on the Middle East failed on Monday to reach agreement on how to restart Israeli-Palesti...
For Israel , President Obama 's announcement of basing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders creates not only huge strategic and tactical issues, but practical one...
What’s next for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks?
Uruguay has joined a string of South American nations in recognizing an independent Palestinian state.A Foreign Ministry statement says Uruguay has communicated its ...
The Obama administration is trying to convince Congress that foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) is the key to peaceful coexistence with Israel . In keep...
Chief PLO representative weighs in
Argentina announced Monday that it recognizes the Palestinian territories as a free and independent state within their 1967 borders, a step it said reflects frustrat...
Brazil says it has recognized the state of Palestine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank .The Foreign Ministry says the recogniti...
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