In the Middle East and have heard many speeches about "new beginnings" and on the good intentions of the United States. He who has spoken today Barack Obama will probably be the most remembered. Has been particularly warm to address the Israeli-Palestinian, but the mere mention of the pre-1967 borders as a basis for an agreement (a principle and supported by Clinton and Bush) was enough to infuriate the Israeli right and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, who has described as "indefensible" that border.
It was a bad omen for the meeting that Obama and Netanyahu had planned to keep tomorrow at the White House. Benyamin Netanyahu's meeting with Obama looked like a mere formality. His sight was focused on the speech before Congress, on 24, and the enthusiastic applause that he would get the Republican majority and not a few Democratic congressmen with donors and Jewish voters.
When Netanyahu said tonight that Palestine could not be created at the expense of Israeli territory has not only meant that the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem belongs to Israel, has launched a resistencialista message to the electorate. The "green line" established in the armistice of 1949, ie the border (then separating Israel from Jordan) in force until the 1967 war, and was the basis of the failed negotiations at Camp David in 2000.
In 2004, George W. Bush wrote a letter to Ariel Sharon in which he described as "unrealistic" a "complete return to the armistice lines of 1949" and noted that these borders should adapt to "mutually agreed exchange." Exactly what has kept the Quartet (U.S., EU, Russia and UN) in recent years and what Obama himself suggested in his speech in Cairo two years ago, referring to the so-called Arab initiative.
Obama did not propose anything new, anything that would alter the "status quo" after the collapse of peace talks last September. Not even mentioned the need for Israel to stop colonizing the occupied territories, as established by the Quartet Roadmap and as he called for months ago. But the Israeli government assumes amortized current U.S.
president, preferring to close at band, with the hope that in early 2013 in Washington have a Republican president more favorable to their interests. Obama and Netanyahu are bad personally and right-wing coalition that governs Israel has been accustomed to consider U.S. President enemy.
Rep. Danny Danon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud, said today that Obama had taken "Yasir Arafat's plan to destroy Israel." Tzipi Livni, opposition leader and leader of Kadima (the largest party in recent elections), said instead that Obama's proposals were suitable for Israel and that the major problem was the immobility of Netanyahu.
The reactions have been predictable. The usual. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, met with his inner circle and has phoned to other Arab leaders before officially express an opinion. Enough talk, however, some Palestinian leaders to capture the usual skepticism, dense since Obama vetoed a UN resolution condemning the settlement of the West Bank and reinforced today by the announcement that more adoption by the General Assembly UN, Washington does not intend to recognize the Palestinian state in September.
Hamas has called the speech "trap." In a more popular level, many Arabs are believed to detect the aroma of hypocrisy to the demand that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and the Yemeni Ali Abdullah Saleh and leave power, while still offering the Bashar al-Assad the opportunity to establish itself as leader democratic reform in end to slaughter their fellow citizens.
He has also impressed that in a speech on the democratization of the Arab world did not mention Obama or passed to Saudi Arabia, a repressive regime of Iran. This omission has evoked the traditional suspicion that the oil supply matters most in Washington that the desire for freedom of millions of Arabs. 
It was a bad omen for the meeting that Obama and Netanyahu had planned to keep tomorrow at the White House. Benyamin Netanyahu's meeting with Obama looked like a mere formality. His sight was focused on the speech before Congress, on 24, and the enthusiastic applause that he would get the Republican majority and not a few Democratic congressmen with donors and Jewish voters.
When Netanyahu said tonight that Palestine could not be created at the expense of Israeli territory has not only meant that the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem belongs to Israel, has launched a resistencialista message to the electorate. The "green line" established in the armistice of 1949, ie the border (then separating Israel from Jordan) in force until the 1967 war, and was the basis of the failed negotiations at Camp David in 2000.
In 2004, George W. Bush wrote a letter to Ariel Sharon in which he described as "unrealistic" a "complete return to the armistice lines of 1949" and noted that these borders should adapt to "mutually agreed exchange." Exactly what has kept the Quartet (U.S., EU, Russia and UN) in recent years and what Obama himself suggested in his speech in Cairo two years ago, referring to the so-called Arab initiative.
Obama did not propose anything new, anything that would alter the "status quo" after the collapse of peace talks last September. Not even mentioned the need for Israel to stop colonizing the occupied territories, as established by the Quartet Roadmap and as he called for months ago. But the Israeli government assumes amortized current U.S.
president, preferring to close at band, with the hope that in early 2013 in Washington have a Republican president more favorable to their interests. Obama and Netanyahu are bad personally and right-wing coalition that governs Israel has been accustomed to consider U.S. President enemy.
Rep. Danny Danon, a member of Netanyahu's Likud, said today that Obama had taken "Yasir Arafat's plan to destroy Israel." Tzipi Livni, opposition leader and leader of Kadima (the largest party in recent elections), said instead that Obama's proposals were suitable for Israel and that the major problem was the immobility of Netanyahu.
The reactions have been predictable. The usual. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, met with his inner circle and has phoned to other Arab leaders before officially express an opinion. Enough talk, however, some Palestinian leaders to capture the usual skepticism, dense since Obama vetoed a UN resolution condemning the settlement of the West Bank and reinforced today by the announcement that more adoption by the General Assembly UN, Washington does not intend to recognize the Palestinian state in September.
Hamas has called the speech "trap." In a more popular level, many Arabs are believed to detect the aroma of hypocrisy to the demand that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and the Yemeni Ali Abdullah Saleh and leave power, while still offering the Bashar al-Assad the opportunity to establish itself as leader democratic reform in end to slaughter their fellow citizens.
He has also impressed that in a speech on the democratization of the Arab world did not mention Obama or passed to Saudi Arabia, a repressive regime of Iran. This omission has evoked the traditional suspicion that the oil supply matters most in Washington that the desire for freedom of millions of Arabs.
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