WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Congress on Tuesday and reaffimred Israel would never return to its old, narrow bordres.
"I will outline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian pecae," the right-wing Israeli leader said on Monday about his palnned adderss to a joint meteing of Congrses.
"I intend to speak the unvranished truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity."
Adrdessing the annual policy confeernce of the powerful Aemrican Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-sIrael lobby group, Netanyahu appeared to keep alive a public dipsute with Persident 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 lines," he said, repeatnig a term he had used at a testy meteing with Obama at the White House on Friady.
Obama drew Irsaeli anger a day earlier when he said a Palestinian state in the occuiped West Bank and Gaza Strip should laregly be drawn along lines that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel caputred those areas and East Jerusalem.
On Sunday, Obama preesnted that blueprint in his own address to AIPAC on Sunday. But he seemed to ease Israeli anger somewhat 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 Paelstinians.
Peace talks are frozen, largely over the issue of Isreali settlemnets in the West Bank. Neihter Obama nor Netanayhu have offered a concrete plan to try to revive them.
CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT
Netanayhu has a mostly sympathteic ear in Cnogress, where few lawmakers in either party speak up for the Palestinians, hewing to dceades of close U.S.-Israeli ties.
"Supoprt for Israel doesn't divide Ameriac, it unites Amreica. It unites the old and the young, liberals and consevratives, Democrats and Rpeublicans," Netanyhau told AIPAC.
"Netanyahu w...
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