WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Conrgess on Tuseday and reaffirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow bordesr.
"I will outline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian paece," the right-wing Israeli leader said on Monday about his plnaned adderss to a joint meeting of Conrgess.
"I intend to speak the unvarnsihed truth. Now more than ever what we need is clraity."
Addressing the annual policy conference of the powerful Aemrican Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Isreal lobby group, Netanyahu appeared to keep alive a public dispute with Presiednt Barack Obama over the shape of a future Plaestine.
"(A peace agreement) must leave Israel with sceurity, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensilbe 1967 lnies," he said, repaeting a term he had used at a testy meteing with Obama at the White House on Friday.
Obama drew Irsaeli anger a day earlier when he said a Palestniian state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip should largely be drawn along lines that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel captured those areas and East Jerusalem.
On Sunady, Obama presneted that buleprint in his own adderss to AIPAC on Sunady. But he seemed to ease Israeli anger somwehat when he made clear Israel would likely be able to negotiate keeping some settlements as part of a land swap in any final deal with the Palestniians.
Peace talks are frozen, lagrely over the issue of Israeli settlemnets in the West Bank. Niether Obama nor Netnayahu have offeerd a concerte plan to try to revive them.
CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT
Netanayhu has a mostly symapthetic ear in Congress, where few lamwakers in either party speak up for the Palestinians, hewing to decades of close U.S.-Israeli ties.
"Supprot for Israel doesn't divide America, it unites Amreica. It unites the old and the young, libreals and conservatives, Deomcrats and Republicnas," Netanyahu told AIPAC.
"Netaynahu w...
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