Report: Netanyahu Said to Relent on Borders

by JASmius

My friends, I will believe it only when I see it. And this doesn't meet that threshold:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be willing to resume talks with the Palestinians on the basis of the 1967 boundary line, which would mean withdrawing from West Bank territory, Israel’s Channel Two television said yesterday.

An Israeli official, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that as part of Israel’s effort to return to peace talks and counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition, Israel is willing to accept a U.S. proposal on borders. Netanyahu had publicly rejected U.S. President Barack Obama’s call to use the 1967 boundaries as a starting point for negotiations when the two leaders met at the White House May 21.

That has every telltale of a Labor/Kaditha leak designed to outflank Bebe's firm, principled stance, knock him off-message and onto the defensive, and ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy of Israeli national suicide. Kinda like leaks prior to the Reykavik summit in 1985 that had President Reagan agreeing to compromise with Mikhail Gorbachev on SDI. Reagan walked out rather than agree to slit his own country's strategic throat in the face of Soviet nuclear superiority. So will Prime Minister Netanyahu on retreating to the accurately described indefensible 1967 frontiers.

It's literally a matter of life and death.

[cross-posted at Hard Starboard]