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PM: Issues cannot be swept under rug
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 20.05.11, 13:37
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1. A two state "solution?"
Karen ,   USA   (05.20.11)
With all due respect, Ms. Livni is willing to sell her own people for the sake of gaining favor with the world by dividing your land. Is this any different than the woman who claimed a child as her own when given a chance by King Solomon to "divide" the child agreed to the "solution" so that there may be "peace" between two women? solomon was not FOOLED by the IMPOSTER. Ms. Livni may want to return to the land of her "ancestors" and leave Israel in the hands of more faithful "stewards" like Bibi.
2. We pray for Bibis success.....
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (05.20.11)
3. livni
michael   (05.20.11)
There is an old saying, If you having nothing smart to say don't say it. This is applicable in this situation.
4. To Israel
coolted ,   nebraska   (05.20.11)
I am an American, and I cannot apologize enough for the behavior of President Obama. You are God's people and the People of the United Stated overwhelmingly support you. Please forgive us.
5. 67 borders still far less than what palestinians deserve
Belal ,   Atlanta   (05.20.11)
palestinians accept 67 borders which 22 % of there historic land, after all the misory you inflicted upon them, this should be a dream come true for Isreal. things are changing now and Isreal cannot sustain the current situation for much longer, stop greed and arrognace. it is time for people there to live in real peace.
6. OBAMA needs prozac big time at the very least
(05.20.11)
He speech will never fly because 1. most of the arab world fights within themselves and will extermiate themselves, 2. they will never go for 1967 boarders no matter how much obama says to 3. they want all of Israel at any cost 4. speech was emtpy words and meant nothing 5. was laughable 6. all arabs know this will never happen 7 bibi knows this will never happen 8. prolonging the baloney, 9 blah blah blah blah etc etc all been said already.
7. Livni
Michelle ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Livni is the real threat to Israel. She is willing to accept ANYTHING without considering the danger it would bring to Israel. Wake up...Obama is not on Israel's side!!!
8. To anyone who has voted for Kadima.
Chaim ,   Israel   (05.20.11)
If you have voted for Kadima in the past, I urge you to commit to NEVER voting for them again. LIvni and Kadima, despite their centrist pretension, is a radical far left party whose policies are identical to those of Labor, Meretz and even the Arab Parties. Kadima counsels nothing but appeasement of Israel's enemies even at the risk of Israel's survival. Kadima deserves to be voted out of existence every bit as much as Labor and Meretz.
9. Livni,
Aharon   (05.20.11)
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
10. Tzippi Livni is correct
Michael ,   California, USA   (05.20.11)
Being in opposition can be very rewarding to a politician. She is correct by saying Israel cannot risk an additional isolation in the world, especially not from its strongest ally. Bibi will come away from Washington defeated, but within Israel he will declare "a victory" to his mission.
11. Geography
Mike caton ,   USA   (05.20.11)
Netanyahu must teach Israel Geography 101 to Obama, so that the latter may see that Ben-Gurion airport and Israel's main population centers are with 6 and 12 mile respectively from the proposed terrorist state armed by Syria and Iran; that the airport and the heart of Israel would be within WWII generation lald to land rocket distance of Pal state, not to mention advanced land to land rockets supplied by Iran , Hezbollah , and Syria.This is not to mention terrorist suicide attacks emanating from te terrorist state, because that is what it will be, and Obama knows it. Netanyahu must emphatically tell Obama that Israel is not willing gto commit suicide to satisfy a nutty, utopic vision of Obama, and then he should walk out telling Obama he has another, more important appointment in washington DC.
12. Mexico - Attack America!
Sam ,   israel   (05.20.11)
I call upon all Mexicans to charge the american border - make sure to shoot grad rockets and quasams into american towns and cities. Let us see how quick Mr Hussain Obama changes his mind on Israel!
13. Delusional Livni
Hunt S. Cross ,   England   (05.20.11)
So, Netanyahu telling Obama the truth means Netanyahu's treating him like an enemy? Don't be absurd - being a friend doesn't mean having to put up with the nonsense, the pressure and reneging on understandings that Obama is inflicting on Israel. Obama has vastly weakened the USA's influence everywhere, not least in the Middle East. In that situation, nothing would suit Obama better than if he is seen as causing Israel to roll over and die, including you. Netanyahu knows what is essential for Israel's survival and security. Abandoning that is pointless. It is highly doubtful whether either you or Barak have the same strategic sense and clarity.
14. WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (05.20.11)
What isn't being discussed bothers more than what is! We are talking about 67 borders as if that's important, it isn't. What about the refugees? Israel having the Jordan River and total control there? When and if Israel were to agree to anything they MUST have security. The recent Nakba Day border attacks cannot be ignored, and that is what they were. Look at at a map, if Israel keeps the West Bank, all Israel has is about a 70 mile border with the Jordan River as a natural barrier. Giving up the West Bank changes the border from 70 miles to about 265 miles, That's huge! Don't you think? So to pretend that's not much is nonsense. But more importantly the refugee issue and the Jordan river have to be resolved before the peace process can move forward. Plus remember the Arabs don't even want to recognize Israel, and if they do they sure have a funny way of showing it. Don't they?
15. Sam mexico is already invading the AZ boarders in droves
(05.20.11)
so this is how we are opening up our boarders 11 million mexicans in the usa now illegally much to the chagrin of AZ leaders. obama really does want open boarders for the world. and the usa has 47 million citzens now on foodstamps, there are 306 million. this is a socialisc government now. there is a new world order and obamma asked brazil to drill for oil instead of usa using its own untapped resouces.
16. Livni has the makings of Flavius Josephus
Roland Seener ,   London England   (05.20.11)
17. 1967 Borders
NYC Girl   (05.20.11)
I've been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote. But if I said publicly what I think of Obama right now...the Secret Service might come knocking on my door in the middle of the night.
18. it is netanyahu fault
fad egypt   (05.20.11)
netanyahu speech in the knesset three days ago is the reason for what happened in that speech netanyahu has agreed to give up the jordan valley except for a very narrow strip along the jordan river in which the idf will be deployed to patrol the border of the PA state represented in military outposts he also said that he will keep the settlements blocs which means that he will give up the rest of the isolated settlements so that speech has encouraged obama to flex his muscles and demands a withdrawl to auscwitz borders and actually obama mentined the land swap option so israel can keep the blocs and may be the narrow strip along the jordan river in exchange of land in negev or galilee to be given to the PA so there is no bigger difference between the two speechs what should be done to prevent the PA threat from becoming a reality is that israel must threaten the PA to reverse oslo and annex area C the reversation of oslo means that abbas will be expelled from ramallah and go to jordan or lebanon and the dark days of the PLO will return again as they were in the seventies and eighties so abbas will be forced to change his mind and cancel the plan but unfortunately BIBI hasnt the will to do so shalom
19. New York City Emergency Demonstration for Israel TodayFriday
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (05.20.11)
New York City Emergency Demonstration for Israel Today Friday at 12 Noon. Outside Israeli Consulate, 800 2nd Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City. Jews are NOT going back to Auschwitz!
20. Summit meeting
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (05.20.11)
For once, we have a president with the guts to tell the Zionists where to get off, as Mr. Obama will do today. This is the beginning of America finally getting the Israel monkey off its back and the settlement once and for all of the Zionism question in the Middle East. Go for it, Mr. President!
21. Livni working with Obama?
John cone ,   Usa   (05.20.11)
I would not be surprised and this is a opinion if Obama is working with livni to replace bibi. Livni cannot be trusted as well as ehud barak.
22. Livni is a complete idiot, netanyahu is incompetent
Faruq   (05.20.11)
obama is not well suported in america, there is no way american-israel relations would be sidelined. israel needs to take action - this means doing things that most countries will not like! it means reaffirming the jewish right to judea and samaria! it means crushing hamas and their PLO pals! by the weakness of the israeli government will not allow for israel to live securely. it is disgusting that zionism has been given up by israeli leaders, just as repulsive as the haredi leaches that are destroying israel
23. Obama is the enemy, not the American people.
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (05.20.11)
24. Does Obama know that 1967 was 44 years ago?
Yaniv ,   Israel   (05.20.11)
Does he know about Jordan valley and defensible boarders?
25. Yeah, like the illegal settlement policy?
Jeff in the U.S. ,   USA   (05.20.11)
That should definitely not be pushed under the rug. But Netanyahu will do his best to do so.
26. Demographics are Israel's true enemy
Barry ,   Boston   (05.20.11)
A two state solution won't destroy Israel. However, maintaining the status quo will. Controlling a huge Arab population is not sustainable. It is time to start thinking ahead and be proactive in creating a two state solution that will safeguard Israel's interest. The last thing Israel needs is for a two state solution to be imposed from the outside.
27. Obama's inept blunder - focus on details vs. core issue
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (05.20.11)
By changing the focus of US policy to "borders", Obama is ineptly - and dishonestly - framing the conflict as a border dispute, which it has never been and is not now. The core of the dispute is the refusal of the Arab side to recognize the legitimacy and sovereignty of the Jewish State - which they have been doing since UN 1947 Partition laying out "Jewish State" and "Arab State" (the UN's own wording). Abbas and Hamas have both previously ruled out ever recognizing Israel as the Jewish State and national homeland of the Jewish People - as Obama to his credit demanded. They have rejected ever abandoning their so-called "Right of Return" of millions of Arabs to Israel. Abbas has never even signed on to Obama's signature "2-states-for-2-peoples" - and in fact rejects it emphatically. And only llast week, in a NYT editorial, so there would be no doubt where he stands, Abbas announced that the actual purpose of a PA State on "the 1967 borders" would be to go to the UN and demand "the 1947 borders" and the flooding of millions of Arabs into Israel, destroying the Jewish State - a rehashing of Arab policy for the last 63 years. So what possible purpose is served in Obama's new focus on the 1967 lines, when it is clear that the Arabs have no intention of ever living up to their side of a land-for-peace deal? Obama's motive is obvious, and it is based on his personal and political cowardice - since he can't disarm Hamas, dissuade the PLO from its Hamas alliance, and has no desire to confront Abbas and the Arab World he is courting over ever accepting Jewish Israel, The Leader of the Free World decides on the easy way out: to buy himself some phony short-term "success" by degrading Israel's negotiating leverage on side issues - borders and settlements -(because that's what Europe wants to do) - while ignoring the fundamental core issue: Palestinian Arab refusal to accept Israel as the Jewish State, no matter what concessions Israel makes - they think "2 state solution" means 2 Arab states. Obama - cheap-shot Chicago political hack that he is - thinks that once Israel makes "major concessions" on the unambiguous (and dangerous) issue of borders, it will be simple to reframe the "recognition of Israel" issue in some meaningless, ambiguous way that each side can interpret as it wants, using some lawyerly wording and winks of the eye in private. Ditto security quarantees to Israel, which the US has never been too good at remembering over time (look at Obama now reinterpreting UNSC242). This is how the Arabs like to operate, also. The President blew it in his speech through his sleazy asymmetry of emphasis. If he wanted to increase the emphasis on "1967 borders", he sould have balanced that with new emphasis on Arab recognition of Israel as the State and homelandof the Jews AS THE ONLY BASIS FOR ANY PALESTINIAN STATE THE US WOULD EVER CONDONE. But he failed to do that - because Obama thinks that Israel's vital interests can be finessed away with fine-tuned legalese in a paper agreement that - unlike borders - will disappear over time. Bibi needs to take on Obama directly and without compromise, not only to save Israel from this jackass, but to save America, since Israel's friends in Congress - the vast majority - see Obama's inept betrayal of Israel as just the leverage they need to get him out of the White House in the coming election. This extremist is trying his best to wreck our country as well as Israel. He has to go. We need Bibi to do his part, its only fair.
28. Livni needs to be investigated
John cone ,   Usa   (05.20.11)
As well as ehud barak and Peres why are they always supported of the US. There is something rotten in Denmark in my opinion.
29. #2 I think you will be disappointed!
Nour ,   One-State   (05.20.11)
If you count on Bibi's success, you will be thoroughly failed by him. He doesn't care about you, your children, or your future. All he cares about is is Coalition of thugs from Moldova, Shas, etc. Peace will be within grasp when you accept the following: 1) Palestinians had nothing to do with the holocaust or Hitler, and will not pay the price of the Nazis' crimes. The Mufti might have met Hitler for a few minutes, but so did many leaders of the Allies. I don't see you cursing the Brits and Italians to this day after Hitler's dinners with Chamberlain and Mussolini. I don't see you complaining about how the Americans' Prescott Bush (Bush's grandfather) was Hitler's banker in New York and helped him ascend to power. Besides, the Mufti was not elected, nor did he prepresent the Palestinian Arabs. He represented the few elite Husseinis of Jerusalem! 2) The land on which your new homes sit belonged to Palestinian Arabs: 700,000 of them, scattered among the best fertile regions of the land. These people myself included have a human right of return to their homes after 63 years of dispossession. My father and grandfather are still alive and would not trade life in the beautiful Galilee of Palestine with anything in the world. 3) Al-Quds is an indivisible part of Palestine and Palestinian psyche. A Palestinian State without Jerusalem is an oxymoron. No Palestinian leader will accept anything less than the old city and Palestinian districts of the city of Al-Quds, and get to keep his head. I am not glorifying or reciting cliches, that is a fact known to all Palestinians. 4) Full recognition of all UN resolutions pertaining to Palestine and Palestinian refugees. Recognize Palestinian Arab rights including our right to self determination and a dignified life away from checkpoints, home demolition, land grabs, segregation and racism.
30. The Zionist Jews will keep pushing the issue until it’s too
ahmad ,   Jerusalem   (05.20.11)
The US will not stay as the only super power and with that, it will slide down slowly like others did before it. It will be busy preserving and maintaining itself. Settlers and right wing fanatics will become secondary. Add to that, The Arab dictators who sold their people to the US and its powerful Jewish loopy in exchange for staying in power are losing slowly. The US, lost and estimated $3 trillion and others put the figure as high as $7 trillions to fight Muslim militants and maintaining the status queue in the Mideast. The last thing the US wants another cycle of this loss as Netanyahu wishes as it tries to maintain its superpower status.
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