Obama backtracks on 1967 comments at AIPAC meeting
In his address to the influential pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S., AIPAC, President Barack Obama has backtracked from earlier remarks regarding an Israeli-Palestinian agreement based on their pre-1967 borders, suggesting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu had misrepresented him.
Speaking in Washington to a welcoming crowd of Israel's hard-line supporters, Obama said delays in moving toward a two-state solution would undermine Israel's security. "There was nothing particularly original in my proposal," Obama told an estimated 10,000 delegations to the powerful pro-Israel lobby, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “This basic framework for negotiations has long been the basis for discussions among the parties, including previous U.S. administrations,” AFP reported on Sunday.
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