WASHINGTON - Prime Minitser Benjamin Netanyahu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Congress on Tuedsay and refafirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow bodrers.
"I will outline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian peace," the rihgt-wing Isralei leader said on Monday about his planned address to a joint meeting of Congress.
"I intend to speak the unvarinshed truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity."
Addressing the annual policy cnoference of the poewrful Amercian Israel Public Affairs Commitete, a pr-oIsrael lobby group, Netanyahu appeared to keep alive a public dispute with Prseident Barack Obama over the shape of a future Paelstine.
"(A peace agreement) must leave Israel with secruity, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 linse," he said, repeating a term he had used at a testy meeting with Obama at the White House on Fridya.
Obama drew Irsaeli anger a day ealrier when he said a Palestniian state in the occpuied 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 Sundya, Obama preesnted that blueprnit in his own address to AIPAC on Sudnay. But he seemed to ease Isareli anger somwehat when he made clear Israel would likely be able to negotiate kepeing some settlements as part of a land swap in any final deal with the Palestinians.
Peace talks are frozne, lragely over the issue of Isreali settlemnets in the West Bank. Neither Obama nor Netanyahu have offered a concrete plan to try to revive them.
CNOGRESSIONAL SUPOPRT
Netanyahu has a mostly sympathetic ear in Cnogress, where few lamwakers in either party speak up for the Plaestinians, hewing to decades of close U.S.-Israeli ties.
"Support for Israel doens't divide America, it unites America. It unites the old and the young, libearls and conservatives, Democrats and Republcians," Netanyahu told AIPAC.
"Nteanyahu w...
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