Saya kutip: The Palestinian refugee problem will be resolved outside the borders of Israel," he stressed in laying out his vision of a settlement with the Palestinians to Congress.
Jadi dia menolak hak orang Palestina yang sekarng hidup dipengasingan untuk kembali ke kampung halamannnya.. --- CNN.com Powered by Netanyahu lays out terms for settlement with Palestinians Washington (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday that Israel "will be generous" on the size of a Palestinian state but will be more demanding in terms of where the lines of the border with that state will be drawn. The "Palestinian refugee problem will be resolved outside the borders of Israel," he stressed in laying out his vision of a settlement with the Palestinians to Congress. His speech follows an appearance Monday night where he told the main U.S. Jewish lobby that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists because Palestinians "refuse to end it." He echoed those remarks Tuesday, saying the Arab-Israeli conflict is a result of a Palestinian refusal to accept "the existence of the Jewish state. This is what this conflict is about." He called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to publicly call for acceptance of Israel's right to exist. Netanyahu said he is prepared to accept a "far-reaching compromise," but any agreement must recognize the "vast demographic changes" that have taken place since 1967. Densely populated Jewish parts of the West Bank must be incorporated into Israel, he said. Why 1967 matters so much to Israel "In any real peace agreement ... some settlements will end up beyond Israel's borders. The precise delineation of those borders must be negotiated," he said. "Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967," he said. Palestinian officials have refused to enter into new talks with Israel on the decades-old conflict until Israel stops building settlements on occupied West Bank land the Palestinians see as part of their future state. Netanyahu's government has rebuffed U.S. calls for a halt to new settlements and criticized the Palestinian Authority's recent reconciliation with the Islamic fundamentalist movement Hamas, which rules the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist. There was no immediate response to the speech from the Palestinian side. On Monday night, activists from the American anti-war activist group Code Pink interrupted Netanyahu's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at least twice. The group criticized what it called "the theft of Palestinian land" and the Israeli blockade of Gaza. On Tuesday, Netanyahu's speech to Congress was again disrupted briefly by a protester who was heard screaming, "Equal rights for Palestine," before police escorted her out of the chamber. AIPAC is a major force in U.S. politics, making significant campaign donations and drawing top administration and congressional leaders to its conventions. President Barack Obama addressed the group Sunday. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, spoke Monday night. In his speech Sunday, Obama repeated a line from a Thursday address that the "status quo" in the Israel-Palestinian conflict is unsustainable and that Israel's pre-1967 borders should be the starting point for negotiations over the shape of a future Palestinian state, with land swaps to deal with changing conditions of recent decades. The proposal is a longstanding formulation in peace talks that Obama expressed as official U.S. policy for the first time, but it was immediately rejected by Netanyahu as unrealistic and prompted criticism from Obama's domestic political opponents. Obama defended the position Sunday, saying any controversy was "not based in substance." "It is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation," Obama said to applause. "It allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years," including the new demographic realities on the ground and the needs of both sides." But Obama also criticized the Palestinian push to seek U.N. recognition of an independent state and the Palestinian Authority-Hamas agreement to hold unifying elections in 2012. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by Washington, and Obama said Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with the group until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Meanwhile, Netanyahu said Monday that the "Arab Spring" now rocking governments across the Middle East demonstrates that the region's problems "are not rooted in Israel." He said the protests -- which have toppled governments in Egypt and Tunisia and led to uprisings in Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain -- are happening "for a simple reason: People want freedom." "It's time to stop blaming Israel for all the region's problems," he said. Peace with the Palestinians is "a vital interest" to Israel, he said, "But it is not a panacea for the endemic problems of the Middle East." CNN's Tom Cohen and Matt Smith contributed to this report. Links referenced within this article Why 1967 matters so much to Israel http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/24/israel.1967/index.html Find this article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/24/us.netanyahu.speech/index.html?iref=NS1 Click Here to Print SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Uncheck the box to remove the list of links referenced in the article. © 2008 Cable News Network. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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