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Instantaneous Outrageous Outrage: 'Obama Sides with Palestinians!'

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Charles5/19/2011 2:32:09 pm PDT

re: #434 gwlaw99

The Green line is the 1948 Armistice line.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Obama didn’t even mention the Green Line. He said “the 1967 lines.”

Charles,
I agree the land swaps makes all the difference, but you are wrong about what the 1967 linesmeans . The 1967 line means the line BEFORE the 1967 war which is the same border as 1949. The END of the 1967 war resulted was Israel in control of the west bank and the Sinai.

No matter how you choose to define the “1967 lines,” the fact is that the Green Line is essentially Israel’s border today. The only part that wasn’t within the Green Line is East Jerusalem, and this is clearly the reason for the statements about mutually agreed land swaps.

The most important point is that none of this is remotely new, or shocking, or outrageous. Obama merely restated the position the US has held for years.