For three months, responsible for the White House have been debating the question of whether the time has come for Mr Obama to make a major address on turmoil in the region, including the upheavals in the Arab world, and if it is to use the opportunity to propose a new plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
An administration official, said the course was supported by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the President himself, but was opposed by Dennis b. Ross, Senior Advisor to the President on the Middle East.
As the administration has been meditate, Mr. Netanyahu, fearing that his country could lose ground with all plan administration of Obama, has been examines the possibility to anticipate the White House with a proposal of its own, before a Congress of the friendly United StatesAccording to diplomats in the region and the United States authorities.
"People seem to think that who is first gets the upper hand," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and a Director to the new foundation of America. Using the nickname of Mr. Netanyahu, he said: "If Bibi went first and was a bold peace plan, it would be more difficult for Obama to say, in fact, despite what you said at the Conference and their applause".This is what I think you should do. ?
The tactics of political diversion between the two men illustrates how the calculation in the Middle East has changed for various reasons, including political upheavals in the Arab world. But it also shows the lack of confidence and of what officials say is personal animosity between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu.
White House officials are working on drafts of a possible proposal, but they decided not to have detailed how it will be, or even if the President will be delivered to a planned speech. If Mr. Obama presented a us plan, officials say it could include the four principles or mandate, built around the final status issues that have bedeviled negotiators of peace since 1979.
The terms of reference could call to Israel to accept a Palestinian State based on 1967 borders. For their part, the Palestinians must accept that they would not get the right to return to Earth in Israel from which they fled or were forced to flee. Jerusalem would be the capital of two States, and Israeli security will be protected.
Mr. Netanyahu has made it clear that he wants that the safety of Israel must before any peace agreement with the Palestinians. It became even more concerned about security because the shifts of power between the Arab States in recent months have weakened the already fragile relations of Israel with its neighbours, particularly the Egypt.
The beating between the administration of the Obama and the Government of Israel reached a peak last week when Mrs. Clinton, the Qatar for a meeting of the World Forum of U.S. - Islamic, announced that Mr. Obama be "talk more in detail the US Middle East policy and North Africa in the coming weeks."
Announcement electrified responsible for Israelis, who is quickly on the phone with us officials and journalists to determine whether Mr. Obama has decided to put an American plan on the table. He is not such a decision, and officials of the White House has warned that the internal debate was still ongoing.
But two days later, the President of the Chamber, John a. Boehner of Ohio, announced its intention to invite Mr. Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress. "The United States and Israel are the closest of friends and allies, and we look forward to hear the views of the Prime Minister on how we can continue to work together for peace, freedom and stability.""," Mr. Boehner, said in a press release.
As of many other leaders foreigners, Mr. Netanyahu spoke before Congress. He did in 1996, and four other Israeli Prime Ministers have since 35 years. The platform gives elected American leaders the opportunity to publicly express their support to Israel before the politically crucial Israel entry.
Address of Mr. Netanyahu will coincide with the meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, probably the most powerful of us groups who advocate of Israel.
Brendan Buck, Mr. Boehner Press Secretary, said that staff members had received no slowdown of the White House at the invitation of Mr. Netanyahu. "Obviously, this is a time troubled for the region," he said. "Our members were very interested in demonstrating that we are with Israel."
Last November, representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, said Mr. Netanyahu as the new Professor G.O.P. majority in the House would "be used to verify on the administration," in a statement that was uncommon for its blunt on us foreign policy disagreement that transmitted to a foreign leader.
Mr. Cantor put out a statement after a meeting with Mr Netanyahu, saying that he "made it clear that the Republican majority includes the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is dependent on the other."
Brian Katulis, an expert on national security with the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization, said that Republicans were trying to "do Israel a question partisan wedge."
"And it is bad for Israel, and it is bad for the United States," said Mr. Katulis. But he added that the administration would never publicly, or even private, to oppose the notion of an Israeli leader dealing with the Congress.
Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity for diplomatic caution, said that they believed that Mr. Netanyahu had the intent to make a bold proposal for a peace deal with the Palestinians, he could do before his people in the Knesset.
"Instead to focus on the maintenance of peace, everyone seems to focus on taking of speech," said Martin s. Indyk, Vice President for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and former Ambassador to the United States in Israel. "And unless that speech generate peace negotiations, the speech does not generate peace."
The debate is taking place under a delay waiting for the meeting of the General Assembly UN, scheduled for September, when the Assembly should widely endorse a Palestinian State in a vote that could prove to be very embarrassing for Israel and the United Stateswhich are both should vote against it.
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