The Post Standard · 23 September 2011
CP-2011-010
Obama embraces Palestine borders
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CLOUDY HIGH 70 LOW mid-50s • FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 RUTLANDHERALD.COM $1.00 Obama embraces Palestine borders By BEN FELLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Exasperated by stalled Middle East peace talks in a season of tumultuous change, President Barack Obama jolted close ally Israel on Thursday "At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are casting off the burdens of the past, the drive for a lasting peace that ends the conflict and resolves all claims is more urgent than ever." President Barack Obama by embracing the Palestinians terms for drawing the borders of their new nation next door: Bank and Gaza — as adjusted by possible Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of land swaps agreed upon by both sides.
He immune to the popular uprisings and his- said Israel can never live in true peace as toric drives for freedom that have swept Israel rejected the idea as "indefensible" on the eve of his vital White House meeting a Jewish state if it insists on "permanent much of the region. occupation." He pushed both sides to accept his start- ing point with Obama.
Obama's cffort to salvage a peace effort - borders for Palestine, security The U.S. president said that an indepen- that is in shambles was a major change for Isracl — and get back to solving a dead- dent Palestine should be based on 1967 in tactics for a president running out of lock "that has grinded on and on and on." In a sweeping review of recent uprisings borders - before the Six Day War in which Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West patience and reasons to be subtle.
The and authoritarian crackdowns across the Israchi-Palestinian stalemate has remained Arab world, Obama was also unsparing in his words for the Palestinian leadership repudiating its pursuit of unilateral state hood through the United Nations and questioning its alliance with a Hamas fac tion bent on Israel's destruction.
"At a time when the people of the Mid die East and North Africa are casting of the burdens of the past, the drive for a lasting peace that ends the conflict and re solves all claims is more urgent than ever, Obama said, playing the rapid change of the past six months against a standoff thai has stymied the Mideast for decades.
More broadly, before a polite diplomatic audience at the State Department, Obama See Obama, Page A2
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