Saturday, May 21, 2011

Obama's speech on the Middle East as a challenge to Netanyahu

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, launched a challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with his call for a Palestinian state based on the lines of 1967, just before their meeting Friday in Washington, say the Israeli media . "Confrontation", title quotidienYĆ©diot Aharonot that the U.S. president's speech is precisely that "that Netanyahu would not hear." The major newspaper is "the shock of Netanyahu's entourage and his vehement reaction to the speech" Obama who has been caught unprepared.

In a response to the harsh tone to the speech of U.S. President Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out Thursday night "any withdrawal to 1967 lines," that is to say, before Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem during the Six Day War (June 1967). "Netanyahu's visit to Washington a bad start.

It will be cool reception by the White House, even though it will cheer before both Houses of Congress and the representatives of AIPAC," the powerful pro-Israel lobby, "says Yediot Aharonot. Mr. Netanyahu must speak before AIPAC on May 22 before taking the floor to the 24th Congress. Maariv also his "A" on the "confrontation" Obama-Netanyahu, saying that the Israeli prime minister "will not rest now that prevent the re-election of Obama," by playing his support to U.S.

States. "The speech fell on the head of Netanyahu as a blow," said the columnist Ben Caspit. The latter speaks of "ambush in advance" by Washington and "revenge" against Obama's chief of the Israeli government, with which it is known that the current does not pass, after "two years of diplomatic stagnation" .

The daily Hayom Israel, near the head of government, notes "the disappointment caused by the speech" in the entourage of the Prime Minister Tzipi Hotovely cites the member of his Likud party (right) who described the presentation of Barack Obama's "quintessence of hypocrisy." The English-language daily Jerusalem Post (pro-government) provides that the "prime minister fulminated when leaving for Washington." Left, the Haaretz considers "historic" speech, accusing U.S.

President "Netanyahu never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity", repeating a criticism routinely used by Israel to criticize the Palestinian leadership. Some commentators, however, believe that Barack Obama has offered nothing concrete to the Palestinians.

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