Tel - Aviv - Obama President and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday sought to caveats a new crisis after the two clashed in public in the White House two days earlier in the appeal of Mr. Obama for a border between Israel and a Palestinian State based on the 1967 boundary line the West Bank.
Addressing a Conference of the Committee of public affairs of American in powerful (AIPAC) Sunday Israel, Obama seemed blunt statement address Mr. Netanyahu Friday that the use of the line of 1967 as future border is "untenable" highlighting that the sides would need to draw a new border that would include the swaps of land to allow Israel to incorporate some Jewish settlements State. Shortly after the speech of Obama, Netanyahu issued a statement expressing "satisfaction" for the remarks.
But few believe Sundaya€ ? s comments can cover until Israeli analysts see as the same lack of confidence and coordination between the two administrations who was arriving for two years. This crisis will be displayed in the coming days when Netanyahu addresses AIPAC Monday and then gave a speech to Congress on Tuesday.
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"There are a lot of suspicion on both sides, and this is a problem," said Shmuel Rosner, columnist for the Israeli daily Maariv. ".Obama suspect that the Netanyahu Government does not want to advance the solution of two States and that it is to drag his felt because it does not support the peace process in General. And I think that the Netanyahu Government suspects that this administration may... try to force a solution which will be not acceptable to Israelis. ?
Mr. Rosner, says the Prime Minister was rejected because he was on short notice last week the Obama plans to refer to the 1967 borders as a starting point for renewed peace talks.
Although Sunday, Obama noted that the sides had already discussed this principle in recent negotiations Netanyahu considers the endorsement, U.S. as change game development. However, Rosner, response of the premier conferences Obama on camera Friday has been "disproportionate" Israeli and bordered on "hysterical", explains.
The analysis of words - and body language
Israeli newspapers were brimming with Deconstructions of meeting of the two leaders Friday, suggesting that body language during remarks on camera was evidence of mutual disdain and frustration.
Title page of coverage in the Yediot Ahronot speaks of "mutual mistrust", while the daily blessings Israel cited a help Prime Minister who said "President Obama does not understand reality". "
Ben Caspit, wrote in the Maariv daily, said "we have declared war to America."
Members of the Government of right-wing Netanyahu, meanwhile, were quick to back up, some to speculate that Netanyahu believes that a majority of Israelis would support him on his refusal to negotiate based on the 1967 line.
History of Rocky
Last year, a conflict between the allies on the construction of Jewish neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem triggered a crisis and a meeting chilly in the White House between the leaders. And during the first months of Obamaa€ ? s tenure, the sides sparred in public by his opposition to the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
He appeared - after last year's administration dropped pursuing a limit on the expansion of the Israeli settlement - Obama and Netanyahu had improved their links. But the outbreak of the regional turmoil in the Arab world has exposed once again different visions of the world, with the American President, calling for a renewed effort to revive the moribund peace as more essential than ever talks and Israeli Prime Ministerthe call for caution.
"The crisis is very serious." "It is not something, you can put the lipstick," said Meir Javedanfar, Middle East Tel Aviv-based analyst. "It seems Obama is of join the rest of the international community in the belief that the current Government does not create trust and go forward with the process of peace". ".
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