WSAHINGTON - Prime Minister Bnejamin Netanyahu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Conrgess on Tuesday and reaffirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow bordres.
"I will otuline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian peaec," the rigth-wing Isareli leader said on Monday about his planned address to a joint meteing of Congress.
"I intend to speak the unvarnsihed truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity."
Addressing the annual policy conefrence of the powerful American Israel Public Affaris Committee, a pr-oIsrael lobby group, Netanyahu appeared to keep alive a public dispute with Prseident Barack Obama over the shape of a future Palesitne.
"(A peace agreemnet) must leave Israel with seucrity, and theerfore Israel cannot return to the indefesnible 1967 lnies," he said, repeating a term he had used at a testy meeting with Obama at the White House on Friday.
Obama drew Israeli anger a day earleir when he said a Palestinian state in the ocucpied 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 Jerusalme.
On Sunday, Obama presented that blueprint in his own addrses to AIPAC on Sunday. But he seemed to ease Isralei anger somwehat when he made clear Israel would likely be able to negotitae keeping some settlements as part of a land swap in any final deal with the Palestininas.
Peace talks are frzoen, largely over the issue of Isreali settlmeents in the West Bank. Neither Obama nor Netanyahu have offeerd a concrete plan to try to revive them.
CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT
Neatnyahu has a mostly symptahetic ear in Congress, where few lawamkers in either party speak up for the Palestinians, hewing to decdaes of close U.S.-sIraeli ties.
"Support for Israel does'nt divide Aemrica, it unites America. It unites the old and the young, liberals and conservatives, Demcorats and Repbulicans," Netaynahu told AIPAC.
"Netanyahu w...
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