The Washington Post reports on Obama’s Middle East speech:

Obama […] called, to Israel’s consternation, for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the basis of Israel’s 1967 borders — an unprecedented step for a U.S. president.

Wow. What an outright lie. Every president I can remember has called for a deal on the basis of the 1967 borders.

How embarrassing for the Post when one can even turn to a pro-Israel propagandist like Jeffery Goldberg to find that admitted:

I’m amazed at the amount of insta-commentary out there suggesting that the President has proposed something radical and new by declaring that Israel’s 1967 borders should define — with land-swaps — the borders of a Palestinian state. I’m feeling a certain Groundhog Day effect here. This has been the basic idea for at least 12 years. This is what Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat were talking about at Camp David, and later, at Taba. This is what George W. Bush was talking about with Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. So what’s the huge deal here? Is there any non-delusional Israeli who doesn’t think that the 1967 border won’t serve as the rough outline of the new Palestinian state?

One expects such outright lying on the neoconned op-ed pages of the Post. But to have such blatant lies produced in a page 1 report is much more serious. It makes all reporting by the Post untrustworthy.

Otherwise it was a lame speech by a lame president who anyway never does what he promises.