Those Darn Democrats

So the President mentions a return to the 1967 borders (with line swaps) thing for Israel and as expected a certain party attacks him this particular stance.  No that it is true what they believed he said.  What is sort of unbelievable is the party that is doing it is his own party.

What the president stated is that any Israeli-Palestinian peace should be based of pre-1967 lines with line swaps not the incorrect assertion that the President wants Israel to go back to the borders of pre-1967.  This particular goal has always been there whether spoken or not.  It really is that simple.  Go research it yourself.  This is not a very bad thing to start with, but no one really wants to talk about it.  Go figure.

Heck I except the President to be attacked by the other party (or parties), that’s pare for the course but I really expect his own members to at least not participate in all the lies going about.

As one example of this sort of ignorance, Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) stated: 

"A two-state solution agreed upon by the Israelis and Palestinians should be negotiated through direct talks," Rothman said Friday in a statement, "but it is important to remember that a full return to the 1967 borders will be indefensible for Israel and that talking with terrorists who want to destroy Israel is a non-starter."

But the President never said to return to the 1967 borders.  Thanks for paying attention Rothman.  I wish President Obama would just backhand some of these people.  However, all of this nonsense caused the president to explain exactly what he wants the enemies to do (using small words for the uninformed) at his speech at AIPAC.  He said:

Let me reaffirm what “1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps” means. 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 4, 1967.

Yes it is that easy. 

But let’s be real.  It seems to me that the involved parties only want to talk about peace.  They have a lot of trouble actually making it happen.  Fifty years from now the president at the time will still be sitting at the table trying to broker some sort of peace deal.

Hopefully his party will be behind him all the way.  It appears that will happen only if he is a republican.

Just saying.