Netanyahu to Obama: Go Jump

Last week, President Obama proposed (without first consulting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu) that

1) Israel should shrink its borders back to pre-1967 borders, 
2) The question of Palestinians being allowed to return ("right of return")  to Israel is still up in-the-air,
3) Who gets Jerusalem is also up for negotiation, and
4) Israel must be the one to give all the concessions.

Other interesting tidbits from Obama's speech on Thursday include his call for a "contiguous Palestinian state", something that would result in Israel being cut right in two.

Obama also stated that recent pacts between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas "raises questions."  What questions?  Hamas, a terrorist group, clearly states its goal is to eradicate Israel and wipe every Jewish person off the face of the earth.

Obama then states that the PA should be "demilitarized" but also have "the right of defense."  What does that mean?

Prime Minister Netahyahu, getting his chance to speak after President Obama's preemptive directives, stated that return to 1967 borders won't happen.

And that Palestinians have no "right of return."

And negotiating with Hamas (as part of the PA) won't happen.

Netanyahu also offered a bit of a history lesson.

The 1967 borders, he stated, could not be defended.  Giving up the Jordan heights would place much of Israel in the sights of terrorist bombs.  This would also place much of Jewish Jerusalem under the PA.

Netanyahu then spoke on "right to return" for Palestinians:  “The Arab attack in 1948 on Israel resulted in two refugee problems, Palestinian refugee problem and Jewish refugees, roughly the same number, who were expelled from Arab lands. Now tiny Israel absorbed the Jewish refugees, but the vast Arab world refused to absorb the Palestinian refugees. Now, 63 years later, the Palestinians come to us and they say to Israel: accept the grandchildren, really, and the great-grandchildren of these refugees, thereby wiping out Israel's future as a Jewish state," because this would result in an Palestinian Arab majority in Israel.  Palestinians would have to move to the Palestinian state. 

Finally, Netanyahu reminded President Obama that Hamas was an enemy of the Unites States also.  He refused to negotiate with Hamas.