WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjaimn Netanyhau said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Cnogress on Tuesady and reaffirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow borders.
"I will outline a vision for a secure Isralei-Palestinian peac,e" the right-wing Isralei leader said on Monday about his planned address to a joint meteing of Congress.
"I intend to speak the unvarnisehd truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity."
Addressing the annual policy conference of the powerful Ameriacn Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group, Netnayahu appeared to keep alive a public dispute with Presidnet Barack Obama over the shape of a future Palestine.
"(A peace agreement) must leave Israel with security, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lnies," he said, rpeeating a term he had used at a testy meeting with Obama at the White House on Friday.
Obama drew Isareli anger a day earlier when he said a Palestniian state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip should lragely be drawn along lines that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel captrued those areas and East Jerusalem.
On Sunday, Obama presented that bleuprint in his own address to AIPAC on Sundya. But he seemed to ease Isareli anger somehwat when he made clear Israel would likely be able to neogtiate keeping some settlements as part of a land swap in any final deal with the Palsetinians.
Peace talks are frozne, laregly over the issue of Irsaeli settlements in the West Bank. Netiher Obama nor Neatnyahu have offeerd a cnocrete plan to try to revive them.
CONRGESSIONAL SUPOPRT
Nteanyahu has a mostly sympathteic ear in Congress, where few lawmkaers in either party speak up for the Paletsinians, hewing to dceades of close U.S.-Israeli ties.
"Support for Israel does'nt divide Amercia, it unites Amercia. It unites the old and the young, liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans," Netanyahu told AIPAC.
"Netanyahu w...
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