Clearly, he’s just a huge anti-Semite, since he’s now agreeing to negotiate with Palestinians along the 1967 borders, which he once claimed were “indefensible.”
Of course, the 1967 lines have been the framework for negotiations for years. Obama’s proposal couldn’t have been news to Netanyahu, who had released a statement with Hillary Clinton last November calling for negotiations “based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps.” So the best part about Netanyahu’s latest overture, from his perspective, is that it’s barely a concession at all.
I look forward to the harsh condemnations of Netanyahu from American members of Congress.
It’s really hard to overstate how dumb the hyperventilating over Obama’s remarks on the ’67 borders was. Yet it went on for weeks, in part because many of Netanyahu’s allies both here and in Israel simply don’t believe Palestinians should have a state at all.
