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Title: Obama moves to break deadlock in Middle East
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URL Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20090820222908246C729950
Published: Aug 21, 2009
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2009-08-21 14:46:17 by X-15
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Views: 290
Comments: 9
Washington - United States President Barack Obama, making a fresh bid to break the deadlock on Middle East peace, called on Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states on Thursday to act simultaneously to help kick-start negotiations. Obama's proposal seeks to overcome deep disagreement between Israelis and Arabs on which side should go first in conciliatory gestures to revive a peace process the president has promised to relaunch since taking office in January. The White House put forth the idea - but provided no specifics - in announcing that Obama had spoken by phone with Jordan's King Abdullah and "agreed on the need to launch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as soon as possible". "They also agreed that all parties - Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states - should take steps simultaneously to create a context in which these negotiations can succeed," Obama spokesperson Robert Gibbs told reporters. The new twist in strategy followed Obama's statement, after a White House meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday, that he had seen progress on the thorny issue of Israeli settlement construction on occupied land. Obama said there were encouraging signs after the Israeli government said it had not given final approval for any new housing projects in the West Bank since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-leaning coalition took office five months ago. While Netanyahu appeared to be trying to appease Washington, Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now said construction was continuing on 1 000 housing units. Netanyahu has rejected Obama's push for a complete settlement freeze, and the impasse has created the most serious rift in US-Israeli relations in a decade. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will not resume peace talks with Israel until it stops all settlement expansion.
Poster Comment: Nobody noticed, nobody cared what Obama said......Obama is wandering in a political wilderness right now, accompanied only by Rahm and Axelrod.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
By starting an all out conflict?
How is it that every single President (and Congress) sticks their noses into the middle east? Christ people, let them sort it out or kill each other trying, it's not our concern as Americans.
Let's be honest here, congress is israel's bitch.
Whether it's Israel (in this case) or not (Iraq, Iran), it always comes back to some U.S. politician strutting around over there, making enemies and creating tin pot dictators. It would be nice, just for a full presidential term, to see a President say right up front "they're on their own, the whole region" and sit back and leave them alone to do as they will. They say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. :)
Ron Paul gave us, and the world, hope of having a sane foreign policy with all nations - but there was no way the shadow rulers would ever allowed him to become potus. They insured it with the black-box voting machines funded by the laughable Help America Vote Act. Right. We're from the .gov, and we're here to help you. (Now bend over.)
What deadlock? Israelis build the wall, bombings drop to near zero. No problem.
All of a sudden dissent is no longer patriotic.
Actually it was his own "supporters" that insured he would never win.
All of a sudden dissent is no longer patriotic.
Obama is a narcissist. Henceforth, we have to examine everything he says and does as a bid to put himself at the center of the world stage. He has no well thought out position on health care. He did not bother to hold hearings or to draft a plan. He has no coherent strategy for Afghanistan or Iraq. His attempt to solve the Mideast crisis is just a ploy to put himself back into the headlines. He is running thin on health care because he can't go out and tell lies about a bill he never read. What lie can he tell on the economy? He is lucky the press knows Wall Street will not allow them to ask any questions that would overly embarrass them.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Obummer is worse than Clinton, who also went careening from one self- manufactured crisis to another. We knew Clinton was a womanizer, we just don't know what Obama's fatal flaw is, other than his communist outlook. Ultimately, it's a cult of personality. Stalin would be proud.
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#2. To: X-15 (#0)
#3. To: SonOfLiberty, all (#2)
#4. To: Lod (#3)
#5. To: SonOfLiberty (#4)
They say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.
#6. To: X-15 (#0)
United States President Barack Obama, making a fresh bid to break the deadlock on Middle East peace, called on Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states on Thursday to act simultaneously to help kick-start negotiations.
#7. To: Lod (#5)
but there was no way the shadow rulers would ever allowed him to become potus.
#8. To: SonOfLiberty, X-15, rustynail, christine, lod (#2)
#9. To: Horse (#8)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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