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Israel's U.S. ambassador: No one will dictate Israel's borders
[Haaretz] Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told news hounds on Tuesday that Israel would not allow anyone to dictate its borders."Like Ben-Gurion, Netanyahu will not allow the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, or any other organization, to dictate our borders. They will be determined through negotiations," he said in Washington during an event at the Chamber of commerce celebrating 25 years since the establishment of the Free Trade agreement between the U.S. and Israel. In September, Israel entered into U.S.-sponsored direct peace negotiations with the Paleostinians, which subsequently broke down in the wake of the expiration of a temporary Israeli moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements. As part of the negotiations, Paleostinian negotiators have demanded the establishment of a Paleostinian state along the 1967 borders. "Today, too, Israel is blessed with principled and courageous leadership. While facing terrorist groups sworn to destroy every last one of us - women, children, senior citizens - and some 60,000 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbullies rockets pointed directly at our homes; with so-called human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... organizations and boycott movements and campus coalitions denying our right to defend ourselves and even our right to exist, and with Iranian leaders swearing to wipe us off the map and striving to produce the nuclear means for doing that.... With all of those challenges, the Israeli government under PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not for a nanosecond reduced its commitment to peace," Oren said. "But not a peace at any price," he added. "Not a peace that will impair Israel's security or impugn its identity as the nation state of the Jewish people. As Netanyahu said last year in his Bar-Ilan speech, he will not allow any future Paleostinian state to become another Leb or Gazoo." Posted by: Fred 2010-10-20 |
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