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“Israel will never give up,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US Congress Tuesday. He pledged to make “painful compromises” in order to create a peace with Palestine-- but stressed at length that return to the 1967 border is impossible.

And despite his criticisms-- he’s getting a pretty warm welcome. A speaker for FOX News gives a possible reason.

JOHN BOLTON: “I think one thing that Netanyahu said that the President could understand very directly is there’s not gonna be any imposed peace Israel and the Palestinians, but only a negotiated peace. That got an extraordinary reaction in Congress because I think the members recognized that Netanyahu was saying ‘I’m not gonna be painted into a corner and neither is Israel.’”

But are Netanyahu and Obama taking radically opposed stances? According to CNN, they are a lot closer to agreement than we might think.

MARTIN INDYK: "President Obama said that the basis for the negotiations should be the 67 lines with agreed swaps. The agreed swaps refers to the settlement blocks that the Prime Minister was talking about... So in that sense the distance between what Obama said and what Netanyahu said is not that great.”

But a speaker for RT disagrees-- saying Netanyahu has not responded well to Obama’s stance, and it raises serious doubts about his commitment to peace.

EMILY HAUSER: “What happened here was the President said out loud what has long been known to be true, what has long been stated in peace proposals for 20 years, frankly. And the President stated it knowing that Mr. Netanyahu knew it. So I can only presume that the President knew that Mr. Netanyahu would respond badly. But what that did was it revealed Mr. Netanyahu for never having been onboard with the peace process to begin with. ”

But, positive or negative, Israel’s Ha’aretz  says all this seems to have given Netanyahu a chance to have the world’s ear.

“The speech... gives Netanyahu a rare opportunity to reboot his leadership. Just a few months ago, he appeared to be directionless. Now, people are hanging on his every word.”

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