Obama Is Not Speaking for America - Wants Israel to Return to 1967 Border

Cartoon by A.F. Branco

By Fred Lucas, CNS News: President Barack Obama called for Israel to give up land to the Palestinians, redrawing the country’s borders to where they were prior to the 1967 Six Day War. This would require Israel to potentially give up the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, or at least major portions of those lands.

“We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states,” said Obama in a major speech at the U.S. State Department on Thursday. “The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state. . . . Israel’s borders today are set based upon its victory in the Six Day War against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, which occurred in June 1967. As a result of that war, Israel expanded its borders to include the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. . . .

Knesset members on the political Right called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject the Obama proposal.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Likud Party member Danny Dannon said, “Barack Hussein Obama adopted the staged plan for Israel's destruction of Yasser Arafat, and he is trying to force it on our prime minister. All that was new in the speech was that he called for Israel to return to 1967 borders without solving the crisis. Netanyahu has only one option: To tell Obama forget about it.” . . . [Full Story]

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