More like bend over.
Via Politico:
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used an MSNBC slogan to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Addressing an issue that is in the primary domain of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Panetta urged Israel to “lean forward” to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Peace talks have been moribund for more than a year.
“Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by. . . continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation,” he said.