White House: Obama did not send letter to Netanyahu

..... not stopping for one moment to realize how fantastically far fetched that thing is.... Not even an April 1st joke would try spreading such gross imagination!

He hasn't a clue who he's dealing with. First he plays kissy face and mea culpa with the Arab world in Cairo, then, refuses even to take a half hour chopper jaunt over to Jerusalem to calm the Israelis down, then humiliates Bibi in front of the whole world at the White House servants entrance, and now he wants the whole Jewish world to treat him as the Meshiach and cower in the corner at the same time. FUGGETABOUTIT!

so lets see...first rahm is leaving...then we hear axelrod is too....and now, its like ross is being tossed under the bus. anyone know what these 3 have in common? I always said they were obama's cover for the jewish democratic vote..and that once he felt it time, they were expedient.

Obama is so utterly clueless when it comes to diplomacy. He created the mess over settlements when he unwisely opened his mouth at the beginning of his Administration, and Abbas has never forgotten. Now Obama is trying to persuade Israel to stop construction for the growing Israeli families in Judea and Samaria with this: From an Israeli perspective, moreover, it’s not clear how much the U.S. assurances are worth. Reportedly, the assurances are (1) that Washington will not ask for a moratorium extension beyond 60 days, (2) that the United States will veto any U.N. Security Council initiative — Arab or otherwise — relating to Arab-Israeli peace during the agreed one-year negotiating period, and (3) that Washington will accept the legitimacy of existing Israeli security needs and not seek to redefine them. OK, Barry, so if Israel continues to build, you will abandon them at the UNSC and will question their security needs? Nice. Thug.

A return to the only legal borders -- those laid out by the UN in 1947 -- an end to aid to either side, and recognition of a Palestinian and a Jewish state as envisioned in the original UN declaration? Pretty wild and crazy, huh? Maybe make that the outcome if Israel can't agree to something else.

so far I only heard demands/requests of Israel giving something..I yet to hear anyone demanding palestinians to do anything.... Looks to me incredibly one-sided approach..Netanyahu is doing his job well and I hope mistakes of the past will not go unheeded... Nothing should be given to palestinians until something tangible is offered by them... No more free rides....

Israel must give for nothing in return. And Obama calls this a "negotiating process?" But then, Chamberlain called surrendering Poland and Czechoslovakia to protect the Brits a "negotiating process" as well.

that the Pals are lying again, which wouldn't be a surprise.

was said in the letter, whether sent or not, Israel should look at what would happen if it doesn't allow negotiations to be extended by continuing the settlement policy. No automatic support at the UN! No support for Israeli forces in the new Palestinian state! Reduced security support! Reduced monetary support that goes to settlement encouragement. Possible EU sanctions. If Bibi can't hold his government together with a building freeze, how can he hope to make any kind of peace that leads to a Palestinian state and the withdrawal of settlers from the West Bank?

All sides suggest things to their own preference and selectively leak them to the press in hopes of pressuring a particular outcome.The Jordan Valley troops for Israel is just a Netanyahu wet dream for killing any prospect of Palestine having sovereignty. It makes no sense for Israeli security that a camera or two on a pole couldn't provide. If Israel cannot bring itself to abandon the Jordan Valley, it better look much more carefully at a bi-national state.

Israel has no place in the Jordan Valley. Any presence of the IDF or Jewish settlers undermines a free Palestine. The occupation either ends completely or it becomes fruitless to negotiate any further.

has zero credibility unless they impose right now a settlement freeze in the WB and East-Jerusalem. The world is tired of the double standard ,show and eternal peace process with zero result.

i' m not Jewish but love the State of Israel. My question is who is really in charges of foreign policy. I never witnessed such a mess in Israel. The Prime Minister said one thing and the next few hours the so called Foreign Minister said something totally opposite., that make Israel look like a Banana Republic where no one seem in charge. In my opinion, dump Lieberman and bring Kadima into the coalition.

An unbelievable offer by Obama, including offers of too long term favors which the Palestinians are likely to bitterly oppose, such as vetoing every anti-Israel decision in the UN in the coming year, exactly when pressure on Israel is needed to conclude the peace talks, or to not push for the certain need of an additional extension. If Netanyahu doesn't grab it, he is an unbelievable fool or an unbelievable weakling. Obama must feel desperate to make the offer. Two months will get him over the coming midterm elections, but if I were him, I would have talked to the Palestinians about continuing to mull the talks for 5 more weeks rather than lose a good pressure lever on Israel for little gain. Indeed, the Palestinians should be wiser to offer Obama to be doing just that if he withdraws the long list of offers to Israel.

Here it comes - wait for it - the trademark Obama wheeler-dealer explanation: "You just didn't UNDERSTAND me". Which Americans are sickeningly used to by now. The Obama regime will explain that, yes, that had indeed "offered to support" a continued Israeli security presence along the Jordan River.....but that ultimately the PLO would have to AGREE to it! This is why "Obama guarantees" are as worthless to Israelis as they are to Americans. The guy is a sleaze.

Everyone has something to say and have others deny it was ever said while the the wheeling and dealing goes on endlessly and fruitlessly. What is ever going to happen after another 2 months 'freeze'?. How can a 'peace agreement' be reached, according to Netanyahu, before the fate of the settlement is agreed upon?. Everyone better read Jonathan Cook's article in www.Zmag.org about the real reasons for Israel's refusal to have a peace agreement- they are all economic, while security and religious considerations provide the cover.

Obama is desperate for the peace talks to last throught the American elections. This can be done in one of two ways. Get Israel to extend the freeze by two months or get Abbas to remain in the talks in spite of settlement expansion. Obama tried both methods and both failed. This is why he is now desperate. Netanyahu kows that, in the end, he will extend the freeze. Before that happens though, he will put the squeeze on Obama for every possible thing he can get. It will be quite a list on top of what Obama has already given him and what America gives Israel every year. Obama is an embarrassment to America. He is a fool and a weakling. I forsee a remarkable turn of events in which an incumbent president does not receive his partys nomination for a second term. I just hope that America can keep the damage Obama is doing to a minimum.

Two months are all that is needed to get through the American elections. What happens after that doesn't bother Obama.

Israel is already loosing that battle.

Obama seems to be made of different stuff. He aspires to do what is "right", more than what political considerations dictate, as he did with healthcare. The problem is that he is too soft, both with his Republican opponents and with Israeli ideologues. Mr. Obama, if you want result with the Israeli right wing, shower them with threats, not favors.

Both say one thing to Israel and then refuse to live up to promises. But then BHO, Clinton, and their House Jews have already sacrificed the US southwest to Hezbollah financed terrorists from Mexico, so why should Israel expect any different

they lie cheat and deceive at every turn.

If the USA is pumping so much into Israel, should ISRAEL be doing the begging to the USA, and not the other way around?? The whole situation just defies logic....