Barack Obama has warned that Israel faces mounting international isolation and deepening security problems unless the stricken peace process with the Palestinians is brought back to life.
The US president used a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobby group, to justify his call last week for 1967 borders to be the basis of negotiations – a call that infuriated Israel, which has backed the establishment of settlements with thousands of Israeli citizens in the West Bank.
His audience at what Aipac said was its biggest gathering yet, in one of the biggest conference halls in the country, gave him a mostly polite response, with a smattering of boos when he first mentioned the 1967 borders… (more)
