WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told President Obama on Friday that he shared his vision for a peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and then promptly listed a series of nonnegotiable conditions that have kept the two sides at an impasse for years. 
 
 Sitting at Mr. Obama’s side in the Oval Office, leaning toward him and at times looking him directly in the eye, the Israeli leader bluntly rejected compromises of the sort Mr. Obama had outlined the day before in hopes of reviving a moribund peace process. Mr. Obama, who had sought to emphasize Israel’s concerns in his remarks moments earlier, stared back. 
 
 In his public remarks, delivered after a meeting that lasted more than two hours, Mr. Netanyahu warned against “a peace based on illusions,” seemingly leaving the prospect for new talks as remote as they have been since the last significant American push for peace collapsed last fall. Officials said that the meeting was productive, but that there were no plans for formal negotiations or any mechanisms in place to push the two sides forward. 
 
 Most significant among his public objections, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel would not accept a return to the boundaries that existed before the war in 1967 gave it control of the West Bank and Gaza, calling them indefensible. 
 
 On Thursday, Mr. Obama said for the first time that those borders should to be the starting point for negotiations to create a Palestinian state, though he emphasized that they would be adjusted to some degree through land swaps to account for Israeli settlements. Mr. Netanyahu simply ignored that nuance — as did many conservative critics here in Washington — further exacerbating tensions with the administration. 
 
 “Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide; it’s half the width of the Washington Beltway,” Mr. Netanyahu said. He was referring to the narrowest point between the West Bank and the Mediterranean Sea, north of Tel Aviv, while displaying a well-honed familiarity with American cultural references to make his point for an American audience. “These were not the boundaries of peace. They were the boundaries of repeated wars.” 
 
 If Mr. Obama and his aides hoped his speech on Thursday would give fresh momentum to the peace process, Mr. Netanyahu’s reaction — first in an angry phone call Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then face to face with the president a day later — underscored why the conflict has long vexed presidential peacemaking. 
 
 “There was no expectation the outcome of the speech would be an immediate resumption of talks,” a senior administration official said after the meeting. “It may take some time.” 
 
 Mr. Obama did not back away from his proposals, despite harsh criticism from Israel’s staunchest supporters, especially among Republicans, who accused the president of setting out a framework intended to force Israeli concessions. 
 
 But Mr. Obama went to length in his remarks on Friday to acknowledge Israel’s security concerns and to emphasize what he called “the extraordinary bonds between our two countries.” When Mr. Netanyahu called Mr. Obama “the leader of a great people” and then fumbled with his words after calling himself “the leader of a much smaller people,” the president interrupted to correct him. “A great people,” he said. 
 
 As he did in his remarks on Thursday, Mr. Obama called the region’s turmoil “a moment of opportunity” to promote democracy and stability in the Middle East and North Africa, even as he acknowledged that “there are significant perils,” reflecting a widely held perception in Israel that the events have made a peace settlement riskier than ever. 
 
 Mr. Obama received the political backing of the United Nations, the European Union and Russia, which with the United States are the international mediators overseeing efforts to end the conflict, known as the quartet. It issued a statement expressing “strong support for the vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace outlined” by Mr. Obama. ||||| Enlarge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he arrives May 23, 2011, to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference 2011 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech Monday that Israel must be mindful of its security and therefore cannot return to the 1967 borders. 
 
 "(A peace agreement) must leave Israel with security, and therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lines," he said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel American lobby, as reported in CNN. 
 
 Netanyahu, speaking to the lobby after he had a testy meeting with President Obama Friday, acknowledged the "agony of war" but blamed the Palestinians for the inability to secure peace between the two sides. 
 
 "This conflict has raged for a nearly a century because the Palestinians refuse to end it. They refuse to accept the Jewish state," he said. 
 
 Palestinians have refused to restart stalled peace talks until the Israelis halt the settlement building in areas Palestinians hope will be their new state. The Israeli government, meanwhile, has criticized the Palestinian Authority for partnering with Hamas, a terrorist organization. 
 
 Obama raised the issue of borders in a major policy speech he gave last week, arguing that negotiations on final borders for the Jewish and Palestinian states must be based on the 1967 lines. This would mean Israel would have to give up land it captured in the Six Day War, notably east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 
 
 Netanyahu, who reacted harshly to Obama's speech, promised to present his vision for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians when he gives a speech before a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday. 
 
 "I will outline a vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian peace," he said, as reported by Reuters. 
 
 "I intend to speak the unvarnished truth. Now more than ever what we need is clarity." 
 
 The Israeli leader received a warm welcome at the AIPAC event, drawing cheers and standing ovations, the Washington Post reports. He is also likely to receive a warm greeting by members of Congress, where he has strong bipartisan support. 
 
 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an ally of Obama, said at Monday's dinner: “No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building or about anything else." 
 
 After his comment, the lights at the Washington Convention Center turned on and most of the crowd gave Reid a standing ovation, Politico reports. 
 
 The support by both the lobby group and Congress may remind Obama that he will have a tough political price to pay in the 2012 election if he pushes Netanyahu too hard on land swaps and settlement building, the Washington Post states. 
 
 In his own speech to AIPAC on Sunday, Obama stressed that the borders could be adjusted through mutually agreed upon land swaps. 
 
 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/110524/netanyahu-aipac-1967-borders
– President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu said reassuring things about US-Israeli relations today, but Netanyahu's list of deal-breakers made clear the two leaders remain far apart on the elements of a peace deal with Palestinians, reports the New York Times. Notably, Netanyahu rejected Obama's suggestion of a return to 1967 borders. “Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide; it’s half the width of the Washington Beltway,” said Netanyahu. “These were not the boundaries of peace. They were the boundaries of repeated wars.” Nor will Israel negotiate with Hamas or accept Palestinian refugees on its soil. "We share your hope and vision for the spread of democracy in the Mideast," said Netanyahu, but he warned that "peace based on illusions will crash on Mideast reality," reports the Los Angeles Times. Obama did not pull back from his border proposal and said the ultimate goal is a "secure Israel state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state. Obviously there are some differences between us in the precise formulations and language, and that’s going to happen between friends."