Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Bibi’s balancing act - Yahoo! News

Bibi’s balancing act - Yahoo! News: "Prospects for new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks seemed more remote after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of Congress this morning.
Although the Israeli leader elicited thunderous applause and standing ovations from U.S. lawmakers at several points, the vision he laid out for an Israeli-Palestinian peace arrangement seems almost certain to be rejected by the Palestinians.
More notably, it lacked altogether a sense of urgency for restarting a peace process, which was a key takeaway of President Barack Obama's recent Middle East address.
'We seek a peace in which they [the Palestinians] will be neither Israel's subjects nor its citizens,' Netanyahu said at a special congressional joint session presided over by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner. 'They should enjoy a national life of dignity as free, independent people living in their own state.'"

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