Israeli PM Netanyahu to deliver a speech to the Congress

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a speech at a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday morning, summary of the visit of five days has been full of controversy and disagreement on a point of departure for negotiations for a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.

In a speech to the Conference on the American Committee on public affairs of Israel (AIPAC) late Monday night, Netanyahu offered an overview of his address, legislators telling the pro-Israeli lobby it will describe a unabashed vision for a peace plan.

"I intend to tell the truth pure and simple, because it is now more that ever we need is peace," said Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu was rebellious in opposition to the position of President Obama, in a speech last Thursday, that the lines of 1967, with swaps agreed, should serve as a basis for future negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

"Israel cannot return to the lines of 1967 indefensible," Netanyahu said to roaring applause from the crowd.

Speaking earlier in the evening, Monday, the Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D - Nev) split with the President on the use of the lines of 1967 as a basis for negotiations.

"I believe that the parties that should lead negotiations must be parties to the Centre of this conflict." and no one else does. The place where the negotiation will be must be at the negotiating table? and nowhere else, "Reid said without mentioning directly the President Obama or his speech last week."

These negotiations will not take place and their conditions will not set through speech, or in the streets or in the media. No one should define premature parameters on the borders, building or anything else, "added Reid."

Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican House majority House Leader told journalists Monday that he expected Netanyahu to issue a statement "about the situation on the ground" in the Middle East and in particular a last updated on the Israelis and Palestinians are in conflict.

"I am hopeful that we will hear a stressing by [Netanyahu] of the danger that faces of Israel, and us in the region, with an alliance between Hamas and Fatah, and the fact that the underlying danger is the fact that you have now a demonstrable entity which aims to destroy Israel and will refuse the right" to exist". as a Jewish State, Cantor (R - VA.) said.

No. 2 Republican House predicted that such a message to Israeli Prime Minister would be "welcomed in Congress", and "the bipartisan agreement will exist and will be to strengthen the support of the United States for our only democratic ally in the region and for really kind of define the right equation and direRegardez", as long as there is no partner for peace in the Middle East, we cannot push an ally in a compromising situation. ?

After the speech of the Prime Minister, Netanyahu will remain on Capitol Hill to meet with leaders of Congress for lunch. Later, he will hold a bilateral meeting with the members of the Jewish Congress before returning to Washington late Tuesday night.

House Chairman John Boehner also delivered remarks Monday night to the AIPAC, where he reaffirmed the support of America to a "safe and secure" Israel, while rejecting the idea that the United States is "too pro-Israeli" and call this suggestion an obstacle to peace in the region.

Netanyahu, explains differences with Obama exaggerated

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.

Obama and Netanyahu face tense session Mideast

WASHINGTON  - approval of the US President Barack Obama a Palestinian request for a long time on the borders of their future State paves the way for what could be a tense meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who had strained relations with the Obama, headed to Washington saying that the vision of the President of a Palestinian State on the 1967 borders - in its elusive vision for a negotiated peace agreement with the U.S. - could leave "untenable." Israel

The White House talks were never conceived to yield no significant progress to re-launch the long peace talks - deadlocked but now this perspective seemed dimmer than ever.

Obama, in a speech policy Thursday on the "Spring of Arabic" uprisings across the Middle East, has its clearest markers still the compromises that Israel and the Palestinians need to do to resolve their decades-old dispute.

His position includes essentially the Palestinian view that the State, they seek in the West Bank and Gaza should extensively draw along the lines that existed before the war of 1967, in which Israel captured these territories and Jerusalem.

On the eve of the Netanyahu visit, it was seen as a message that Obama expects Israel to finally make big concessions.

"The viability of a Palestinian State cannot come at the expense of the existence of Israel," Netanyahu said in a statement before flying to the United States for his interviews with Obama.

First statement of pure and simple of the Obama of its position on the issue of borders could help the doubts of ease in the Arab world in its commitment to act as an impartial broker.

But the Democratic President quickly came under fire from Republican critics, who accuse him of betraying the Israel, the closest U.S. ally in the region. 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.

"This approach undermines our special relations with Israel and weakens the ability of our ally to defend themselves, said House Cantor Eric for the Leader of the Republican majority."

ISRAELIS CONFUSED

Taken while Obama also had hard words for the Palestinians, Israeli officials have been particularly aback by its language blunt criticism of "colonization" and its continued occupation of Arab lands.

There was no word on if Netanyahu, who heads a coalition of right-wing, pro-settler, had been warned.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the efforts of Obama renew talks which collapsed last year.

Obama has little to show for his efforts for peace since coming to Office. His last attempt collapsed when it backed that face Israel in the colony in the West Bank.

Despite the tensions, Obama has created three hours for Netanyahu Friday, including a working lunch. Visits could not always smooth, however.

In March of last year, Netanyahu was left cooling his heels, while Obama went to the residence of the White House for dinner with his family, seen as a snub in Israel.

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.

Although this has long been the private Washington view, Obama went further than the American authorities have disappeared in the past, when they described such a solution as a Palestinian aspiration that it includes not only their own.

Obama, in a BBC interview after his speech, said that Israel is "going to have to feel confident about his security" before he is expected to agree on an arrangement of border.

Obama has also delivered messages that will be difficult for the Palestinians to swallow, suggesting their effort to gain membership of a Palestinian State of the Nations United is condemned and that they have much to explain to treat a reconciliation with Hamas, which considers the United States as a terrorist group.

To reassure the Israelis, Obama returned to the safety of Israel and said that any future Palestinian State must be "non-militarized", something Netanyahu demanded.

But he warned of Israel: "the dream of a Jewish and democratic State cannot be filled with permanent occupation."

In a sharp response, Netanyahu said that he expected to "hear a reaffirmation of President Obama of commitments U.S. taken into Israel in 2004" - a reference to a letter the President George w. Bush suggesting the Jewish State can keep blocks of large facility under a peace Pact. "."

Palestinians say settlement expansion is aimed at depriving a viable State and successive US administrations have saved the Jewish State of resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations condemning such activity.