ISRAEL'S SECURITY.

Once again, President Barack Obama reiterated U.S. unflinching support for Israel's security before the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), completely exonerating him from the accusation that he "threw Israel under the bus" by his adversaries.

A section of the U.S. media was still chewing on the controversy on Sunday; and many snide remarks were made by the so called "contributors" about the president's speech last Thursday, part of which called for Israel to return to the stalled negotiations with its rival Palestinian Arabs, by going back to the 1967 borders.

In his most recent speech on Sunday, he (Obama) stated that the idea was nothing new; nor was he instructing Israel to do something that has not been suggested by previous American governments before; using it, in every instance, as a starting point to get the stymied talks going until peace was achieved between the two opposing sides.

Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have used the 1967 boundaries suggestion as a "bait" to get both sides to come to the peace table; and they (presidents) succeeded to large extent. Yet the same problem only kept coming back or repeating itself over and over and over again.

Israel could therefore go back to THE IDEA again, only to do so with a renewed determination to reach a settlement with its Palestinian neighbors. What was wrong with that?

Prime Minister Netanyahu took issue with the Obama administration's position in regard to the statement contained in Thursday's speech, stressing repeatedly, "that will never happen,"; thus making his meeting at the White House a battleground, when in fact the U.S. was trying to be nothing else, but a good unofficial "ombudsman".

Whatever Israel did from now on would be for its leaders to decide; however, they should not allow the Israel-Palestine conflict to interfere with American politics in any substantial way, particularly when there was the U.S. 2012 Presidential election in the offing.

That was how the scenario looked like from the perspective of many Americans, when he (Netanyahu) drenched the administration with so much rebuke last Friday in Washington D.C.

Media "contributors" should not be aiding and abetting in any such move; either by Israel or the Mahmoud Abbas government, as some of them tried to do on Sunday TV programs yesterday (5/22/2011). It was not right, instigating the matter any farther.