Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left New York for Israel Saturday night with aides expressing satisfaction that the key objectives of his trip – clearly defining red lines on Iran and clearing the air with Washington – were achieved. “The first thing that he succeeded in doing was sharpening the message on Iran,” one source in Netanyahu’s entourage said of the prime minister’s speech Thursday to the UN. “We were more specific about what we think should be the red lines, and that is important in framing the parameters of the debate.”
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It is my opinion that President Obama will say whatever he needs to say to avoid exposing himself to public scrutiny among voters who support Israel’s right to exist as the only FREE democracy in the middle east. After the election, if he is still president we will see his true feelings about Israel returning to the 1967 borders. With United Nations support President Obama will demand Israel return to those borders as a starting point in order to get a meaningful peace agreement with Israel’s neighbor countries.