President Obama publicly declaring that Israel needs to return to pre-1967 borders

Chris Matthews Thinks It’s ‘Unusual’ for The GOP to Stand With Israel and Against Obama

- Don Irvine Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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Chris Matthews jumped into the debate about President Obama publicly declaring that Israel needs to return to pre-1967 borders (with agreed upon land-swaps) as part of any Middle East peace plan negotiations.

What provoked Matthews to explore this issue was the solid Republican support for Israel’s position that any discussion of returning to the 1967 borders was a non-starter for them in any peace negotiations. Realities on the ground have changed the necessary terms of the debate.

Matthews asked his guests Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Sam Stein of the Huffington Post if it wasn’t unusual to have “a bunch of Republican Senators line up with a foreign leader against the president of the United Statesâ€