WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused, before a speech Sunday by President Barack Obama a group assassinated, they were locked in crisis after their dispute public on peace in the Middle East.
"Reports of disagreement have been blown way out of proportion," Netanyahu said that on Saturday by a spokesman.
The White House Friday, Netanyahu flatly rejected vision of the Obama for the borders of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, occupied in what appears to be the opening of a deep division between Israel and the United States.
In a rebuke sharp to closest ally of Israel, said Netanyahu Obama its approval to an address on the Palestinian request Thursday to return to the borders of 1967 Israel - land grants great sense - leave indefensible Israel.
Last comments Netanyahu did not any change to this position.
But as Obama prepared for the annual meeting in Washington, the Organization of the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC, where he could do with a cool reception from some delegates, Netanyahu appeared to try to soothe any anger toward the President.
"It's true, we have some differences of opinion, but are among friends," the spokesman for the city telling him.
Netanyahu believed that Obama had "shown its commitment to the safety of Israel, in word and the deed", added the spokesman. "And we work in collaboration with the administration to achieve common goals."
The spokesman did not define these common objectives, but Israeli officials have cited the opposition of the Obama for a Palestinian bid to win the recognition of the United Nations of a State in September in the absence of talks for peace and for the Iranian nuclear program.
SPEECH BY MR. NETANYAHU
Netanyahu addresses AIPAC Monday and a joint meeting of Congress, Tuesday, with political commentators speculate whether if he would use these platforms to attack the Obama peace plan or to try to facilitate their strained relations.
Obama, in his speech on Thursday, laid down clear markers still on the compromise, he believes Israel and Palestinians must resolve a conflict that has long been seen as a source of tension in the Middle East.
But it has not presented an official U.S. peace plan or a timetable for an agreement he had promised after win in September.
Pushing Netanyahu risks alienating the base of the Jewish State of support among the American public and Congress as Obama seeks re-election in 2012.
Talks under the auspices of Washington on the initiative of the Obama collapsed last year when Netanyahu refused to extend a moratorium on the regulation of buildings in the West Bank.
Word of Thursday, Obama said: "we believe that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the lines of 1967 with mutually agreed swaps" land.
Benjamin Netanyahu, himself, appeared in an index, in a speech to Parliament Monday, a territorial trade Israel, said that his Government would retain "block settlement" in a future peace agreement.
The remarks were widely interpreted as indicating he would be willing to abandon more small and isolated settlements, and they drew fire from right-wing politicians and settler leaders.
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