44 years. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obama s speech today may ease some of netanyahu s concerns. i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldn t be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israel s right to exist. he s saying any country can t be expected to negotiate with someone that won t even accept its right to exist. and so i think as the prime minister looks to make his speech tomorrow night at aipac and also a speech before congress on tuesday, i think president obama definitely encouraged him, made him feel a little bit bitter since what he heard on thursday during that speech. president obama is getting ready to put some more miles on air force one. he heads to ireland in a few hours to examine his irish
by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. that s what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. it allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years. cnn s senior u.s. state department producer elyse labben is in washington right now. how important was it for the president to make this speech? well, i think it was very important, fred, for him to, as you would say, clean up some of the messiness that residuated over the last couple days when he gave that speech about those 67 borders. everyone was like what does that mean? we can t go to those borders which prime minister netanyahu called indefensible. what he was saying is basically this is all about setments. what he is saying is that with these land swaps that israel wil
benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obama s speech today may ease some of netanyahu s concerns. i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldn t be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israel s right to exist. he s saying any country can t be expected to negotiate with someone that won t even accept its right to exist. and so i think as the prime minister looks to make his speech tomorrow night at aipac and also a speech before congress on tuesday, i think president obama definitely encouraged him, made him feel a little bit bitter since what he heard on thursday during that speech. president obama is getting ready to put some more miles on air force one. he heads to ireland in a few hours to examine his irish roots. in about ten minutes, we ll h
looks to make his speech tomorrow night at aipac and also a speech before congress on tuesday, i think president obama definitely encouraged him, made him feel a little bit better since what he heard on thursday during that speech. meantime, president obama underscoring that israel cannot afford to be isolated. what did he mean by that? well, what he meant, fred, is the arab spring, these revolutions sweeping the nation in egypt, syria, yemen, what he s saying is change is moving too fast. now these arab protesters are not just going to be protesting for themselves. he s saying you can t leave the palestinians behind. if we re going to talk about a new region, it has to include a palestinian state and the arab spring is going to be part of this. he s saying you can t get left behind if you don t make a deal now, the street will take over you and not only will israel not be able to guarantee a jewish state because the demographics are really changing in the region, but it also won t