{"id":9762,"date":"2011-05-19T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:33:30","slug":"how-not-to-welcome-a-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9762\/how-not-to-welcome-a-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Welcome a Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama welcomes (if that&#8217;s the word) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Friday. Oh, to be a fly on that wall.<\/p>\n<p>The president chose to spend the day before his meeting with the head of the Jewish state&#8217;s government calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, meaning that it would give up all claims to the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Golan Heights &#8212; all of which are essential to Israeli security as long as the nation is surrounded by enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect Netanyahu to roll over. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/20\/world\/middleeast\/20mideast.html\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Netanyahu said in a pointed statement just before boarding a plane to Washington that while he appreciated Mr. Obama\u2019s commitment to peace, he \u201cexpects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of American commitments made to Israel in 2004 which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those commitments came in a letter from President George W. Bush which stated, among other things that \u201cit is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949,\u201d another way of describing the 1967 boundaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next time Obama chooses to be so imperious with his prescriptions for Middle East peace, he&#8217;d do well to remember one of the salient differences between himself and the Israeli Prime Minister: only the latter&#8217;s consent is essential for a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama welcomes (if that&#8217;s the word) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Friday. Oh, to be a fly on that wall. The president chose to spend the day before his meeting with the head of the Jewish state&#8217;s government calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, meaning that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2711,143,989,1326,2713,269,386,998,458,387,2712],"class_list":["post-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-1967-borders","tag-barack-obama","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-golan-heights","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-middle-east-peace","tag-palestine","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9765,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}