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Reid Rejects Obama's Israel-Palestinian Border Stance

Townhall Staff
Townhall Staff  |  May 24, 2011
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President Barack Obama has lost at least one ally for his views on the Mideast. In a speech Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected Obama’s own talk last week in which he called for Israel to negotiate peace with the Palestinians using pre-1967 borders as a baseline, Politico reports.

"The place where negotiating will happen must be at the negotiating table — and nowhere else," Reid told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "Those negotiations . . . will not happen — and their terms will not be set — through speeches, or in the streets, or in the media."

As for the borders issue, "No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building, or about anything else," he said.

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