Netanyahu on US-Israeli Relations, the Settlement Freeze and the Middle East Peace Plan
EmailFor GMA, I had the chance to interview Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – his first American interview in nearly a year.
It comes at a time of high tension between Netanyahu and the Obama Administration, and the Prime Minister clearly wanted to tamp that tension down, calling the US-Israel relationship “rock-solid.”
But he didn’t paper over his differences with the President. Netanyahu signaled that he wouldn’t agree to the kind of settlement freeze in East Jerusalem that President Obama is demanding, and he insisted on the kind of “crippling sanctions” on Iran that Obama has taken off the table for now.
He also won’t welcome a Middle East peace plan written by the Obama Administration, an idea that former President Clinton seemed to support in his 'This Week' Interview with Jake Tapper.
Click here to read the full transcript
And watch our interview here:
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George, did you stomp and throw a fit when this guy didn’t bow to Obama’s demands? Just wondering how bad your feelings were hurt.
Posted by: whatsgoingonhere? | April 19, 2010, 10:44 am 10:44 am
Send Netanyahu to Guam and have him capsized. He is a big obstacle to any peace in the troubled region.
Posted by: Huh | April 19, 2010, 11:24 am 11:24 am
Why are they calling a 3-state as a 2-state:
‘IT WILL BE A HISTORIC COMPROMISE TO GRANT TWO STATES IN PALESTINE – ONE FOR THE JEWS AND ONE FOR THE ARABS” – Churchill.
If the math is so poor, why not apply it to a ficticious state like Jordan, now illegally occupying the land allocated to the Jews in the Balfour? Israel has historical validity and UN voting from all nations: Jordan has neither.
And if it is called land for peace – do the Muslims need a new golf course on soccer sized Israel – as a sign of ‘peace’? If the first 2-state was immoral and perpetrated for 30 barrels of oil, which carving off 80% as a COMPROMISE’ [Churchill] – is another 2-state not criminal? Everyone is on candid camera here – none are exempt – or immune.
Posted by: BUTSeriously | April 19, 2010, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
The middle east peace plan will never succeed, because the Palestinians will never agree to peace.
It is a dead concept, and the world needs to move on, to something workable, for the middle east, which does not now exist.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | April 23, 2010, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
The middle east peace plan will never succeed, because the Israelis will never agree to peace.
It is a dead concept, and the world needs to move on, to something workable, for the middle east, which does not now exist.
Posted by: Huh | April 25, 2010, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
Why is this happening
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