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Netanyahu travels to Washington in the midsts

Netanyahu travels to Washington in the midst of national and international crossroads.

Elias L. Benarroch Jerusalem, July 5 .- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travels to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama, amid a new crossroads on which depends the peace process in the Middle East and stability of his government.

The interview with Obama, the first from which held on 23 March in an atmosphere of bilateral tension maxima by the building, crimecraft cash, of settlements in East Jerusalem, is scheduled for Tuesday, and analysts agree that Netanyahu comes amid a tangle of personal interests, national, regional and international.

"You see in a real and complicated juncture (because) the Palestinians, in a masterful media maneuver, have launched the ball to the Israeli field," says an editorial in the conservative newspaper "The Jerusalem Post."

The, tibia gold, paper rrs to the press conference that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday last with major Israeli media, and which announced its readiness to direct peace negotiations with the condition that tacitly accept Netanyahu's borders 1967 and the partition of Jerusalem.

A proposal that would allow peace talks directly for the first time since December 2008, when Israel attacked, gaia gold, the Gaza Strip, which killed some 1,400 Palestinians.

After much international pressure to get some sort of progress in resolving the conflict, the parties negotiated since March through the mediation of U.S. envoy, George Mitchell, who on Friday concluded its fifth round of talks with the frustration of not moving to the rhythm desired, the newspaper Haaretz.

Abbas so far refused to negotiate directly if Israel did not completely suspend construction on the territory occupied since 1967 (West Bank and East Jerusalem) and the apparent shift of Wednesday, some commentators interpret as a "trap" before the interview with Netanyahu Obama.

The Yediot Aharonot weekend warned that the Israeli prime minister will look at a series of lawsuits by Obama, such as "the indefinite suspension of the construction in the settlements," essential to move towards direct talks.

The 10-month moratorium decreed by Netanyahu will end in September, and the ultra-right settler, including that part of his government - "Israel Betenu", "Jewish home" and part of the "Likud" - has already begun to battle for not extended.

On Sunday the prime minister had to resort to strong pressure to torpedo the initiative of two members, one of Likud and the other from the National Union (opposition), to give Parliament the exclusive power to prolong the moratorium.

At the last meeting of the Council of Ministers reaffirmed that "the main purpose of his interview with Obama will move to direct talks with the Palestinians," but made no allusion to the condition Abbas, maybe not to warm the spirits in the nationalist camp .

And in his usual political stagnation, Netanyahu was once again between two fires.

On the one hand Obama faces pressures and the international community to revive the peace process with the Palestinians, which in the last month joined the Labour Partythe third most important political force in the Israeli government.

The leader of that party and Dnse Minister Ehud Barak, the leader has warned the Government that no peace process can not count on them for much longer.

On the other hand, the settlers and the extreme right made the same threat if you take a wrong step in Washington and extending the moratorium on construction in the West Bank.

The most optimal output of the prime minister seems to pass by the centrist Kadima party, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and the leader of the main parliamentary group with 28 members (one more than the Likud).

An agreement with Livni, if it accepts, would allow parties to get rid of Netanyahu Betenu Israel and Jewish Home for love the government.

It is believed that also would ease international pressure on Israel due to moderate mood she enjoys for his advocacy of the peace process, on the contrary that the current Foreign Minister, the ultra-nationalist Avigdor Lieberman.

As no one seems to agree is whether Netanyahu, known for his inability to make tough decisions, really would want to implement the program, as election Kadima Livni demanded the last time, and if his party, Likud, will allow it.

In the latter case, Netanyahu could face an internal rebellion as that the same header in the Likud when Ariel Sharon ordered the Gaza withdrawal in 2005.

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