Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined issues with American President Barack Obama by categorically rejecting the president latest road-map to peace. The president had called for the return to the 1967 border demarcations as a solution to lasting peace; while on the other hand Netanyahu flatly rejected it as being indefensible? Icheoku adds what is there to still defend when the president of the United States, in addition, have practically guaranteed the defense of Israel from any foreign attacks.
Icheoku says looking at the condescending manner Netanyahu was looking at the president and how rudely he flatly rejected the president's proposition, it is possible that some members of US government are giving Netanyahu false hopes that Israel will prevail in the long run with having their way with this president as they have done with all previous ones. It is wrong negotiating conditions to make it my way or the highway for the other side. First Israel rejected a freeze on further construction of houses and expected Palestine to continue to negotiate? Now they also rejected another possible road out of the wood and expects Palestine to continue to negotiate? Icheoku asks, what does the Israelis really want Palestine to negotiate with, when themselves have remained obstinate to every suggested way out of an impossible quagmire bogging down the Middle East peace process. Icheoku regrets that such stringing out by the Israelis might lead to another return to insecurity of intafada and peradventure another all out war in the Middle East; especially now that the people have a voice on how they are governed with the Arab Spring currently underway and having lost their good friend Hosni Mubarak of Egypt? Icheoku says, please, please and please Israelis, the world wants you to be dead serious in preventing an implosion of the whole Middle East so negotiate you have to as those who make the peaceful impossible make the violent inevitable. Your security is guaranteed by America so what is the ruse about an indefensible 1967 border lines?