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(Reuters) - Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told Barack Obama on Monday that he
would never compromise on Israel's security even as the U.S. president
sought to reassure him on Iran nuclear diplomacy and pressure him on
Middle East peace talks.
In a White House
meeting overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, the two leaders avoided any
direct clash during a brief press appearance but were unable to paper
over differences on a pair of sensitive diplomatic drives that have
stoked tensions between them.
Obama
assured Netanyahu of his "absolute commitment" to preventing Iran from
developing atomic weapons, despite the Israeli leader's deep skepticism
over U.S.-led efforts to reach a final international deal to curb
Tehran's nuclear program.
But,
warning that time was running out, Obama also urged Netanyahu to make
"tough decisions" to help salvage a faltering U.S.-brokered peace
process aimed at reaching a framework agreement with the Palestinians
and extending talks beyond an April target date for an elusive final
accord.
"The Israeli people expect me to stand strong against criticism and pressure," Netanyahu told the president.
Obama
and Netanyahu, who have had strained relations in the past, showed no
outright tension as they sat side-by-side in the Oval Office. Both were
cordial and businesslike. But their differences were clear, and when the
talks ended after nearly three hours there was no immediate sign of
progress.
Netanyahu
arrived in Washington to a veiled warning from Obama that it would be
harder to protect Israel against efforts to isolate it internationally
if peace efforts failed.
The
Israeli prime minister used their brief joint appearance to put the
onus on the Palestinians to advance prospects for peace and also to vow
to hold the line on what he sees as Israel's security imperative.
HISTORY LESSON
In
his remarks, Netanyahu offered Obama what was essentially a history
lesson covering the last 20 years of conflict with the Palestinians as
well as what Israelis see as an existential threat from Iran, arch-foe
of the Jewish state.
"Iran
calls openly for Israel's destruction, so I'm sure you'll appreciate
that Israel cannot permit such a state to have the ability to make
atomic bombs to achieve that goal," Netanyahu said. "And I, as the prime
minister of Israel, will do whatever I must do to defend the Jewish
state."
Obama is seeking
room for diplomacy with Iran, while Netanyahu, who has stoked U.S.
concern in the past with threats of unilateral strikes on Iran's nuclear
sites, has complained that sanctions on Tehran are being eased
prematurely.
The meeting
with Netanyahu marked a new direct foray into Middle East peacemaking by
Obama, whose first-term efforts ended in failure.
Secretary
of State John Kerry has been trying to persuade Netanyahu and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to agree to a framework deal that
would enable land-for-peace negotiations to continue, even though there
is widespread skepticism inside and outside of the region about his
chances for success.
Abbas,
who seeks Palestinian statehood, is due at the White House on March 17.
He has resisted Netanyahu's demand, repeated during the Oval Office
meeting, for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as the nation-state of
the Jewish people.
Netanyahu
appeared to be pushing back implicitly against Obama's warning in a
Bloomberg View interview of "international fallout" for Israel if peace
efforts break down and the building of Jewish settlements continues.
Israelis,
increasingly concerned about an anti-Israel boycott movement, view such
U.S. warnings as an attempt to squeeze out concessions.
Possibly
further complicating the talks, an Israeli government report showed
that Israeli construction starts of settler homes had more than doubled
last year.
Palestinians
seek to establish a state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East
Jerusalem as its capital. Israel captured those areas in the 1967
Middle East war and in 2005, pulled out of the Gaza Strip, now run by
Hamas Islamists opposed to Abbas's peace efforts.
OBAMA URGES COMPROMISE
"Israel
has been doing its part, and I regret to say that the Palestinians
haven't," Netanyahu said, an assertion he is likely to repeat on Tuesday
to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, a past podium for some of his
most strident speeches.
Obama
commended Netanyahu for his role in the talks that resumed in July but
warned that "the time frame that we have set up for completing these
negotiations is coming near."
"It's
my belief that ultimately it is still possible to create two states,"
he said. "But it's difficult and it requires compromise on all sides."
Palestinians point to Israeli settlement-building in occupied West Bank territory as the main obstacle to peace.
Netanyahu told Obama that Jewish history taught Israelis that "the best way to guarantee peace is to be strong."
His
remark harkened, but without the stridency, to an Oval Office visit in
2011 when he famously lectured the U.S. president on the long struggles
of the Jewish people, as he sought to counter Obama's call to base any
peace agreement on borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.
Ukraine
has dominated Obama's agenda. "I know you've got a few other pressing
matters on your plate," Netanyahu joked to Obama, who used his press
appearance to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow faces
international isolation for its military intervention in Ukraine's
Crimea region.
On Iran, Obama and Netanyahu gave no real sign of progress in bridging fundamental differences.
Netanyahu,
whose country is widely believed to be the Middle East's only
nuclear-armed nation, has denounced as a "historic mistake" an interim
deal that world powers reached with Iran in November, under which it
agreed to curb sensitive nuclear activities in return for limited
sanctions relief.
He has
insists that any final deal must completely dismantle Tehran's uranium
enrichment centrifuges, a position that is at odds with Obama's
suggestion that Iran, which says its nuclear program is peaceful, could
be allowed to enrich on a limited basis for civilian purposes.
On
Netanyahu's visit to Congress, where pro-Israel sentiment runs strong,
House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor told him he backed his
demands to dismantle Iran's nuclear program and for Palestinians to
recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
