Thursday, May 19, 2011

Obama Backs Mideast Deal Based on 1967 Lines

Myers & Landler, NYT
Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, President Obama for the first time on Thursday publicly called for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a non-militarized Palestinian state on the basis of Israel’s borders before the 1967 war that led to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.“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 that ever,” he...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/05/19/obama_backs_mideast_deal_based_on_1967_lines_255757.html

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