Obama and Netanyahu poised for tense meeting

US president Barack Obama’s endorsement of a longstanding Palestinian demand for a future state based on 1967 borders sets the stage for what could be a tense meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on Friday. Netanyahu, who has had strained relations with Obama, headed for Washington saying the president’s vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 – as part of his vision for an elusive US-brokered peace deal – could leave Israel “indefensible”. The White House talks had never been expected to yield any significant progress to revive long-stalled peace talks, but now that prospect seems even

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