Netanyahu denies giving Mubarak a map
Prime Minister Netanyahu has denied reports in foreign media that claim that he gave Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a proposed map of a 'Palestinian state' in their meeting on Sunday. The reports also indicated that Mubarak rejected the map. The PMO released a statement calling the reports "baseless and without foundation."However, had Netanyahu given Mubarak a map, it would likely have been as described and Mubarak likely would have rejected it.
"The statements regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu, in particular, and with regard to the substance of the meeting did not occur," the statement stressed.
The London-based Arabic newspaper Ashaq al-Awsat had reported earlier on Tuesday that Netanyahu had brought the border map to show Mubarak at their meeting.
Mubarak reportedly refused Netanyahu's proposed borders because they did not fall in line with Palestinian and Arab League demands that Israel retreat to pre-1967 borders, excluding minor land swaps for major Israeli settlements.
Mubarak was said to have told Netanyahu that he would need to amend his proposed borders if direct talks were to take place.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told reporters the basis to move from indirect to direct talks was still "lacking" after the Netanyahu-Mubarak meeting on Sunday.
Someone needs to remind the Arabs who started the 1967 war and who won it.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:51 PM
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I don't believe Israel will withdraw to the 1967 borders and let's hope Netanyahu made Israel's position very clear to Egypt's dictator: that Israel is not going to ever go back to that vulnerable condition again and that only Israel will defend itself. If giving up strategic depth and relying on foreign forces is the price Israel has to pay to make direct talks happen, then it is preferable to have no talks take place to the kind of "peace" that would be secured with such talks, which would only create the basis for a more devastating war in the future. That is not the kind of peace any Israeli Prime Minister would want to sell to the people of Israel.
About who started and who won the '67 war. Unfortunately our adversaries have interpreted both parts differently than we do.
Folks from the pacifist 'peace' camp here will tell you that Israel struck first -- they discount the closing of the strait and the genocidal pronouncements. So as far as they are concerned, Israel 'started' the war.
Then there is the wording of UN resolution 242, which proclaims that countries can not acquire territory through war. It is obvious that the UN considered Israel the aggressor, an interpretation that is absolutely bizarre. So to our adversaries, Israel in effect lost the war.
Dore Gold is excellent at addressing these points. I hope he can be given an opportunity to rectify the information -- for those that care.
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