Jeffrey Heller and Susan Cornwell
Reuters
5/23/2011
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to Congress on Tuesday and reaffirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow borders.
“I will outline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian peace,” the right-wing Israeli leader said on Monday about his planned address to a joint meeting of Congress.
“I intend to speak the unvarnished truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity.”
Addressing the annual policy conference of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby group, Netanyahu appeared to keep alive a public dispute with President Barack Obama over the shape of a future Palestine.
“(A peace agreement) must leave Israel with security, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lines,” he said, repeating a term he had used at a testy meeting with Obama at the White House on Friday…
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