Washington Post:  Israeli Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that President Obama holds an unrealistic view of how to achieve peace in the Middle East, saying that Israel would never pull back to the boundaries that the American president said a day earlier must be the basis for negotiations.  The unusual Oval Office exchange, following a nearly two hour meeting, laid bare the fundamental differences between Obama and Netanyahu.  Obama and Netanyahu acknowledged those differences in an appearance before reporters, but it was equally clear that differences would not be easily resolved at a time when the Middle East and North Africa are undergoing historic political change.  "Israel wants peace.  I want peace.  What we all want is peace that will be genuine, that will hold, that will endure," said Netanyahu, addressing Obama next to him, but also an evening television audience in Isreal.  "The only peace that will endure is one not based on illusions, but reality, on unshakable facts."  Netanyahu then ruled out an Israeli withdrawal to the nation's boundaries on the eve of June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which ended with the West Bank, Gaza strip and other territories under Israel's control.  Only a day earlier, in his speech on the Arab Spring at the State Department, Obama called for the 1967 lines to be the basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations over final borders, which would have left Israel an eight mile indefensible strip of land!  His predecessor, George W. Bush, called Israel's withdrawal to those lines unrealistic, given the large Israeli settlements that have been built over more than four decades of occupation.  They now jut deep inside the West Bank and are home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.  "Israel cannot go back to the 1967 lines, these lines are indefensible," Netanyahu said.  "They don't take into account certain demographic changes that have taken place on the ground over 44 years."  On taking office, Obama made reinvigorating a moribund Middle East peace process a priority, and he inaugurated a new round of direct talks last year, only to see them collapse within weeks.  Obama has said the political tumult upending many governments in the Middle East, including some of Israel's Arab neighbors, makes an Israeli-Palestinian peace process more urgent than ever, given the uncertainty over what will emerge from the unrest.  His endorsement of the 1967 lines as a starting point for talks, which took Israeli officials by surprise, is the latest bid to revive negotiations.  "Obviously, there are some differences between us in the precise formulations and language - that's going to happen between friends," Obama said.  "But what we are in complete accord about is that a true peace can only occur if the ultimate resolution allows Israel to defend itself against threats; and that Israel's security will remain paramount in any US evaluation of a peace deal."  Obama spoke more briefly than Netanyahu, and he listened with his hand on his chin as the Prime Minister toured Israeli history, modern and ancient.  Netanyahu said, with apparent emotion, that he spoke as "leader of the ancient nation of Israel."  

My Comments:  I imagine that with all of the upset and turmoil after Obama's speech on Thursday, his mouth was shut up a bit today.  I can't imagine what his dull head may have been thinking when he came up with his speech at the State Department Thursday, prior to his meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu, but I think he has a slightly different take on the facts now.  Maybe, just maybe he was "paid" to make such an outlandish speech on Thursday.  The Arabs have a whole lot of money, a whole lot of money; or maybe it was just his siding with the terrorists, as usual.