“We
cannot go back to those indefensible lines,” said Netanyahu.

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday Barack
Obama, sounding more like the leader of Hamas than a U.S. president, said that
in order for peace to be achieved in the Middle East Israel would have to
withdraw to the 1967 borders. If that
demand sounds familiar it’s because it’s the same one that Hamas and Palestine
have been making for years.

Today, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama took a meeting together at the White
House. The meeting ran 90 minutes longer
than scheduled and then the two leaders sat down together to speak to the
press.

Both leaders said they shared a
desire to achieve peace and downplayed their obvious disagreements.

“We may have differences here and
there,” Netanyahu said.

Obama reminded reporters that he was
all over the Middle East situation and tossed out names like Bahrain, Tunisia
and Egypt to demonstrate his prowess as a statesman.  Obama said he discussed the
U.S. plan for dealing with Syria at length and the sanctions that the U.S. has
now placed on Syria’s president.

But it was Obama’s startling remarks
on Thursday where the President basically knocked the legs out from under our
most staunch Middle East ally that had all eyes watching for the reaction from
the two world leaders.

Netanyahu made it clear that a
return to the 1967 borders was not a viable consideration.

“We cannot go back to those
indefensible lines,” Netanyahu said.
Obama never uttered the words “1967 border” today.

Of course as any military expert,
former soldier or even casual watcher of combat movies can tell you, Netanyahu
is exactly right.  A return to the 1967
borders would ensure the total destruction of Israel, a postage stamp sized
nation that lives daily being surrounded by people and governments sworn to
their annihilation. But hey, otherwise how’s the weather over there?

Netanyahu mentioned the wild notion
that maybe Hamas should have to make some changes…chief among them the whole
“Kill all Jews” mantra that they live by and maybe even an actual recognition
of Israel’s right to exist and the acknowledgement of the right for Jews to
exist as a race.

Both Netanyahu and Obama stressed
the need to make some progress toward peace, despite all the obstacles,
particularly now as drastic change sweeps the Arab world.

Obama continued his “pro-democracy” assertion
in relation to all the countries experiencing protests, despite the fact that as
of yet we have no idea how any of these “new” governments will develop.

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John G. Winder has spent 29 years in the broadcasting industry as an on-air report, General Manager and Executive in both radio & television.

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