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Netanyahu Aides Play Down Differences with Obama
(Washington Post) Joel Greenberg - Yaakov Amidror, Netanyahu's national security adviser, said the prime minister told his staff after speaking with Obama on Friday that he had come away reassured after the president clarified points he had made in his speech Thursday, in which he called for a two-state solution based on Israel's 1967 boundaries. "Contrary to the headlines, the disagreement is far less deep," Amidror told Israel Radio. "My sense is that the headlines don't correspond with reality." Amidror said that Israeli officials were pleased that Obama had rejected Palestinian attempts to secure recognition of statehood at the UN, that he backed Israel's refusal to negotiate with a Palestinian leadership that includes Hamas, and that he asserted that a two-state peace deal must affirm that Israel is the Jewish state.