Netanyahu has been forced to stand before its only ally’s Congress like a defendant in a criminal case. He restated Israel’s only possible position if it hopes not to be pushed into the sea.

He said Israel cannot move its borders back to those used before the 1967 war, arguing that Israel would be only nine miles wide at its narrowest point and thus would be vulnerable to invasion. Though he did not use the phrase of one of his predecessors, Menachem Begin, he virtually promised – “Never Again!“

On Thursday, Obama proposed that the 1967 boundaries become a baseline for territorial negotiations, an idea that Netanyahu quickly rejected. Obama later reiterated his position, emphasizing that the pre-1967 baseline should be subject to land swaps.

But Netanyahu’s speech also suggests that Israel and the Obama administration face an uphill struggle to convince allies in Europe and elsewhere that they should embrace the peace process and not Palestinian efforts to win recognition in the United Nations to make them a full fledged member this fall.

Palestinians dismissed Netanyahu’s speech as little more than a restatement of familiar Israeli demands.

After appearing to lecture Obama in a White House meeting last week, Netanyahu struck a more gracious tone Tuesday, thanking the president for supporting Israeli security. Lawmakers rose repeatedly to applaud the Israeli leader, sending an implicit message that the Obama administration should not push Israel too far. Even one of Obama’s closest allies appeared to criticize the president. On Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) chided the White House for suggesting that Israel should return to the pre-1967 borders.

“No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building, or about anything else,” Reid said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group known as AIPAC, which Obama had addressed a day earlier.

Others said Netanyahu may have gone too far. Continuing “to spar with the president risks deeper tension and mistrust with the Obama administration, which ultimately undermines Israel’s interests,” said Haim Malka, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Netanyahu appeared to show movement on a few key points, analysts said.

He now says Israel will need a “long-term” military presence in the Jordan Valley, on the eastern edge of the West Bank, rather than a permanent presence, said Zvika Krieger of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace in Washington.

Netanyahu also acknowledged for the first time last week that Israel would need to give up some smaller Jewish settlements in the West Bank, though it will keep larger ones, in any final peace deal.

Krieger described Netanyahu’s comments as “Israel’s starting offer for negotiations.“

Prophecy Blog: Terry Myers Smith
Revisionist History should not cause us to forget the truth of Israeli Nationalism and Arab Aggression

It always comes down to one inglorious fact in the eyes of the world: If Israel would stop being obstinate and make some easy concessions the Arab/Islamic nations would play nice and let them have their little piece of dirt by the sea. Now even Obama has poured fuel on that flaming fantasy.

Obama is using the shifting hopes of the Arab Spring as leverage in the old attempt to wear down the Jews and get them to concede to unwise conditions.

The insinuation is that the Islamic move to “freedom” is a freedom in accord with Western Constitutional freedoms and that they will be more amenable, even receptive, to Israel if they will act as if they truly are lovers of freedom and now see the Jews right to exist as a free and sovereign people.

Pie in the sky if ever anyone heard it.

No one knows what brand of freedom will sprout from the Arab Spring. One thing should be sure with any professor of prophecy that it will be a brand that will empower Islamic/Arab world (best recognized in prophecy as the king of the south and nations) and help it get out of the clutches of the Antichrist Imperial world. With the flap over Palestinian rocket attacks, the attempted uprising on Nakba Day on May 15 by Palestinian militants on the Lebanese border, and Palestinian bids to be included as another freedom embracing nation worthy of U.S. support within the Arab Spring revolutions paradigm, the suggestion by Obama that the Jews ought to fall back to the 1967 borders if they were serious about trying to get along with the other peaceful people in the world, is diplomatic spam that I’m sick and tired of seeing.

The Jews are compelled to take a belligerent tone; who wouldn’t say, “Trick me once shame on you. Trick me twice shame on me,” They have to take a stand like they once did when Roman Antichrist forces besieged them behind the fortification of Mazada.

The Prime Minister did not bother to remind Americans that the borders were enlarged not on account of Israeli aggression but were expanded as a result of two sneak attacks by its three neighbors, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, once in ’67 and six years later in ’73. Besides having a common purpose to exterminate Israel, each attacker shared another thing in common – they were military states armed to the teeth who were on the Israeli border minus the least frontier buffers.

We should not tolerate the revisionist history that the world pumps out through rigorous Palestinian propaganda. Obviously, only a miracle saved tiny Israel from Islamic hopes of Jewish annihilation on both occasions. Ever since then Palestinian propaganda has tried to paint the Jews as the aggressor.

The Nakba Celebration is filled with delusional history. It supposedly commemorates their exodus into slavery at the hand of the oppressor Jew.

The fact is they fled not in a hail of bullets but in a panic caused by a supernatural fear of specters and confusion reminiscent of the Syrian army which once heard imaginary chariots and deserted their siege camp and left the booty for the starving defenseless people of the Israeli capital.

This just smacks of trying to rip off the Jews of their exodus from Egypt in some kind of reverse weird way, reminding me of the time I heard Anwar Sadat, speaking in behalf of of the Egyptian people, revise history by saying that the Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt never happened.