"In any peace agreement that ends the conflict, some settlements will end up beyond Israel's borders," Netanyahu said in a rare speech to a joint meeting of Congress, saying he had to be "honest" with the Israeli public.

"We will be very generous on the size of a future Palestinian state," he said in a speech frequently punctuated by warm applause and several standing ovations from the US politicians.

But Netanyahu again ruled out any return to the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East War or dividing the holy city of Jerusalem. The Palestinians demand east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

"Jerusalem must never again be divided. Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel," Netanyahu said.

The issue of accepting the 1967 borders basis as a starting point for negotiations has been at the core of an ongoing row between Netanyahu and Obama.

One can look at the Sunday Telegraph (one of Murdoch stable of farting nags) this morning (Sunday 5 june 2011)... The front page is attacking Clover Moore, an independent who is Sydney's mayor and an MP as well — and doing a good job on all front... Inside, it's anti-Julia, anti-global-warming rants after rants interspaced with second rate stories about not much... There is of course the token sea level rise article to "balance" the horrid tide of slant... And Miranda Devine and Piers Akerman are doing their darnerst to bite Julia's Government with bile, rancour and idiocracy...

From rabid Akerman

WITH two years to run, the Gillard-Green-independent minority government is all but dead in the water. It is a shot duck.

When Ms Gillard ousted sitting Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd she essentially claimed she needed to take such extreme action because Rudd had failed to deal with the mining tax, global warming and the illegal boat people traffic.

The mining tax is going nowhere; levying a tax and claiming such action will affect the global temperature is increasingly being seen for the scam it is, and even the most vituperative and self-righteous of the former Howard government's critics are now recanting and admitting the Pacific solution would be better than Gillard's Malaysian sleight-of-hand.

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Why so much hate, bile and poison in the ratbaggery?... Well it's obvious... The Julia government, despite what the biased media is touting, is scoring points. The ratbag rabid right may be winning the opinion with porkies stacked on top of porkies, but what matters is, come July one, another 25 days, and the government with the help of the greens won't have to deal with the nasty gastly Abbott team in the senate anymore... And that is scaring the pants of Abbott and his scarecrows... So they're cranking up the attack dogs...