Obama wants Israel to go back to the pre-1967 borders, and he’s squarely placed the blame on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not being willing to go along.
I addressed this the other day in my post, Obama’s interference in Israel’s election.
Now Netanyahu is speaking up more forcefully, Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I won’t capitulate:
Days after President Barack Obama was quoted as castigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for ostensibly turning Israel into a pariah nation and threatening its long-term survival, Netanyahu hit back Saturday night, declaring that if he were to capitulate to demands for a retreat to the pre-1967 lines, “we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my house.”
According to a report Tuesday by Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama has begun repeating the mantra that Israel under Netanyahu “doesn’t know what its own best interests are.”
Israelis can and will decide for themselves who best represents their interests, Netanyahu retorted in a Channel 2 interview. Alluding to Obama’s calls for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement based on the pre-1967 lines with land swaps, and a halt to building over the pre-67 lines in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, “When they say, ‘Go back to the ’67 lines,’ I stand against. When they say, ‘Don’t build in Jerusalem,’ I stand against.”
He added: “It’s very easy to capitulate. I could go back to the impossible to defend ’67 lines, and divide Jerusalem, and we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my home.” That would not happen under his leadership, he said.
“It’s easy to do, and they’d applaud,” he went on, presumably referring to the US-led international community. “They’d applaud just like they applauded the parties (in the 2005 Israeli government) that pulled out of Gaza. Those parties got applause, and we got a rain of rockets.”
Obama unrestrained in a second term will bring this to a head. And Netanyahu will get the blame from Jeffrey Goldberg and others, with absurd overreactions similar to what took place when Netanyahu said he expected Obama to live up to the commitments made by prior presidents.
Adam Kredo and others warned about what is about to unfold:
“There are grave concerns that during his second term, when he no longer has to worry about mundane matters of electoral politics, that the real Barack Obama will come forward,” said the source. “Bibi Netanyahu better watch out.”
Update — thanks to a commenter linking to this video, which we have posted before:
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In. A. Nutshell.
“Bibi Netanyahu better watch out.”
Sadly, a global caution to everyone who wants peace in the near and far terms.
Obama HAS made the world less stable. He WILL continue that, perhaps at a much more rapid pace.
when he no longer has to worry about mundane matters of electoral politics, that the real Barack Obama will come forward,” said the source. “Bibi Netanyahu better watch out.”
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this is what I have been warning about, he’s more flexible now……
Nope, Obama better watch out.
The arroagance of the progressive left is astonishing. They think Bibi better watch out? More like, if you side against Israel, God made a promise that you’d be destroyed. Obama is treading on thin ice in that regard.
Meanwhile, the New York & elsewhere in the U. S. high rise Jews vote for & applaud the New Fuhrer. After all, many of Israel’s Jews are from Eastern Europe. You can make points with your trendy lefty friends by viewing them as “stiff necked, obstinate. “
I’d cast my vote to Benjamin Netanyahu for President of the United States in a New York Second! Israel knows Banock Omaba has nothing but contempt for its people. to expect Israel to return to pre-67 borders is a death stroke and the Marxist Oval Office Occupier would prefer Israel to be wiped from the map.
Netanyhu be careful? Hardly! Netanyhu lost his brother at Entebbe while rescuing Israeli hostages. We have a Muslim MOOO who hunkers down in the Situation Room watching real men off OBL.
I SECOND the Nomination!!
All those opposed..? STFU, Chucky Schumer..!
The ayes have it.
Check out this amazing video of Benji when he was 28 years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixYEZ9M_dU
Hi Professor,
I’m making this comment in hope that some of the people who scoffed at your suggestion yesterday to join Twitter will have the time to be here today.
I Tweeted this yesterday:
@JoyKeller1
#Israel “we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my house” —> Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I won’t capitulate http://toi.sr/U9n3Xa #tcot #TGDN
….and had a few ReTweets that were sent to about 7000 other people, but my list of followers is miniscule compared to yours.
Need I say more?
I initially began to comment regarding 0bama’s ignorance of history and what happened to change the ’67 borders, but then I realized–it doesn’t matter.
If only our President was as committed to our national interests as Netanyahu is to Israel’s!
Wouldn’t you give your right arm to see Mr. Netanyahu and the girlie-man locked in a room for 10 minutes – I’d love to see the little twerp shoot off his mouth in that situation.
From “Dreams of My Wife,” inside the mind of the all-too-real woman in Barack Obama’s life:
“Barack Obama will require you to go back to the pre-1967 borders. He is going to demand that you shed your anti-Hamas cynicism. That you put down your weapons of defense. That you come out of your isolation as a pariah state, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better world citizens. And that you capitulate. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninformed, unterrorized.”
The sheer stupidity of it all – the other side starts the war in a 1967 surprise attack, loses real estate, and now the victor is supposed to give back the spoils of war?
Can you imagine a 28-year-old Bibi vs. a 28-year-old Barack?
That would be the first KO to be measured in milliseconds.
One young man was busy fighting in battle while the other was battling composite girlfriends.
Here is are two revealing photos showing the contrast between Netanyhu and Obama as young men:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u24Kh7kA8_c/TdpUoUKOG2I/AAAAAAAACPo/0hPL97RECB8/s1600/Young+Obama+Young+Bibi.jpg
Photo of Obama with composite ‘girlfriend’
http://i47.tinypic.com/264ieip.jpg
Baruk Hashem Israel is forever!
Location Height Latitude Longitude Distance from Nebo
Mount Nebo 802 m 31o48’N 35o48’E 0 Km
Dan 33o16’N 35o37’E 163.88 Km
Jericho -300 m 31o51’N 35o27’E 33.5 Km
Zoar 31o3’N 35o26’E 90 Km
Above is the longitude and latitude of what G-d showed Moses as the Promised Land, the promised land to the Israelites take up all of Saudi Arabia, part of Jordan and Egypt.
Yes, Zero, lets go back to the original borders of Israel so Jews and Christians can live together close to our capital, Jerusalem. Woe to us Americans, cause historically the G-d of Israel meted out judgments based on the actions of its government.