Israel: Obama 'Doesn't Understand' Middle East

A senior Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier today that President Obama's speech on the Middle East shows that he does not understand the region or the road to peace.

This follows Obama's call yesterday to return to the 1967 borders, which depending on the interpretation, could leave Israel with indefensible borders. PM Netanyahu has called for a reveral of the statement and now the Israelis are getting more vocal.

A senior Israeli official told reporters on the aircraft that there's a sense Washington "does not understand the reality" of the situation.

The official added that Netanyahu was disappointed the speech did not address the Palestinian demand to repatriate to Israel millions of Palestinians, most descendants of people who were driven from or fled homes in the war over the Jewish state's 1948 creation.

Obama doesn't get it.

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