Breaking News Alert The New York Times Thu, May 19, 2011 -- 1:04 PM ET -----
Obama Backs Mideast Plan Based on 1967 Borders Declaring that "the dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation," President Obama said that a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must embody two sovereign states based on pre-1967 borders. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company it looks like pressure from Obama's giving into pressure from: * popular protests in the Middle East and the decline and/or fall of autocrats allied to (or living to live with) Israel; * the Palestinian refugees' protests at Israeli borders and Israel's bloody response; * the greater unity between Fatah and Hamas and the possibility that the UN would recognize a Palestinian state; and * protests against Israeli treatment of Gaza; * Turkey; * the obvious intransigence of the Israeli government and the settlers (their unwillingness to seriously talk peace, even by US standards); and * the fact that conservative regimes such as that of Saudi Arabia have been pushing the idea of going back to 1967 boundaries for quite awhile. of course, I can imagine that the US Israel lobbies are going to be miffed.... Will Obama be able to garner enough campaign contributions as GOPsters and many Democrats accuse him of being an anti-Semitic socialist? -- Jim Devine / "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
