Responding to Obama's new Middle East policy, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a Palestinian state along the 1967 border lines would leave the country "indefensible."
Netanyahu said he expects Washington to allow Israel to keep major settlements beyond the 1967 lines in the occupied West Bank, in any peace deal with the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to renew peace talks with Israel that collapsed last year. Abbas said he would soon convene "emergency" talks with Palestinian and Arab officials to consider further steps.