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News Analysis

Netanyahu tests Obama in ME policy speech

AFP, Washington
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is testing US President Barack Obama's terms for peace talks with the Arabs by nodding to some of the demands, analysts said
In his speech Sunday from Ramat Gan, they said, Netanyahu yielded somewhat to Obama's call for a two-state solution by proposing a demilitarised Palestinian state but he ignored his appeal for a total freeze on settle-menjs.
Meanwhile, during a visit to the legion, former US president Jimmy ( arter warned that the US and Israeli governments would be on a "collision course" if Israeli settlement activity continues in the Palestinian West Bank.
Analysts agreed such a confrontation is still possible.
For Aaron David Miller, a former adviser in both past Democratic and Republican administrations, Netanyahu tried to "strike a balance" between responding to political pressures in Israel and in Washington.
He said he succeeded, at least in part, by calling for a Palestinian state that is demilitarised while demanding that the Palestinians establish law and order, recognise Israel as a Jewish state and solve their own refugee problem.
Ihe White House later issued an upbeat initial assessment.
Obama "welcomes the important step forward in Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech, White House
spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement.
Obama "believes this solution can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfilment of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations for a viable state, and he welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal," it said.
However. Miller, a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre think tank in Washington, said it is not clear how the Obama administration will respond to Netanyahu’s refusal to stop all settlement activity.
He left open the possibility of a settlement deal struck between the two leaders in private
If the Obama team ends up pursuing its firm line, he said, it risks a fight
with Israel without achieving much in the absence of prospects for reviving Palestinian-Israeli talks -- partly hobbled by massive Palestinian divisions.
"They're all dressed up and there's nowhere to go without Israel’s cooperation.” Miller told AFP
Tamara Colman Wittes, an analyst at the Brookings Institute, said the speech was as much aimed at Netanyahu's domestic audience as at the Palestinians, Arabs, and the United States.
However, there are implications for the new administration.
Wittes said Netanyahu "went a step or two in the direction the Obama administration wanted him to go,* without making substantive progress.