Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected United States President Barack Obama’s call for peace talks between the Jewish state and the Palestinians based on 1967 agreement.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of US commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress,” read a statement released late Thursday, “Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to pull out to the 1967 line which are both hard to defend and would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria (in the West Bank) beyond those lines.”
The 1967 line, or the Green Line, is used to separate Israel from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, of which the Israeli army took control through the Six Day War in 1967.
The prime minister reiterated Israel’s demands for a peace agreement, including solving the Palestinian refugee problem outside the Israeli border, the Palestinians recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, and stationing the Israeli military along the Jordan River.
Earlier on Thursday, Obama gave a major speech at the State Department over the US policy in the Middle East and North Africa. As to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, he urged the two countries to negotiate a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with mutually agreed exchanges.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Obama in the White House on Friday.
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