Posted on 05/22/2011 9:20:24 AM PDT by Qbert
US president will use visit to London to keep pressure on Israel for Middle East peace deal
Barack Obama will seek a joint Middle East agreement with David Cameron, insisting that a Palestinian state should be based on pre-1967 borders a proposal rejected by Israel's prime minister as "unrealistic" and "indefensible".
The issue will be raised in private talks between the two men during the state visit by Obama and his wife to London, only the third by a US president in 100 years. Afghanistan, Libya, relations with Pakistan and the global economy as well as the vacancy for the top job at the IMF will also make up the agenda.
Despite the outright rejection by the Israeli premier, Binyamin Netanyahu, of a Palestinian state based on the borders that existed before the Six Day War, when Israel captured and occupied the West Bank and Gaza, Obama has already secured the political backing of the United Nations, European Union and Russia who, with America, are collectively known as the "quartet".
Signalling his determination to keep up pressure on Israel, Obama will be looking to enlist the public support of the UK prime minister. The aim is, in large part, to persuade the Palestinian leadership not to go to the UN in September seeking symbolic backing for an independent state.
The coming meeting between the two men follows evidence of a hardening of criticism of Israel by London. On the eve of the Obamas' arrival, Middle East minister Alistair Burt accused Israel of "unhelpful and destabilising activity" in announcing the building of 1,500 new settlement units in East Jerusalem ahead of a speech by the president on the Middle East on Friday.
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Obama isn’t just out of his element he’s out of his little mind he is dangerous to the free world.
As a Briton, I am sick and tired reading on FR about Britain’s alleged antisemitism.
It is rubbish and offensive. The British people have never been antisemitic. In fact the British have REJECTED groups who espouse anti-semitism, be it Oswald Mosley and his 1930’s Fascist Blackshirts or today and Nick Griffin’s BNP (British National Party).
In fact many of the British people’s most beloved cultural icons, from high st shops to artists, have been openly Jewish.
Because the British govts have been in the past Arabist dosent make Britain antisemitic.
0bama has one hell of a lot of nerve to ask the Brits to do anything he wants. I’m being generous, of course. It isn’t nerve, it’s arrogance and ignorance.
Recall the “Roadmap To Peace” hit a roadblock when the so-called Palestinians wouldn’t agree to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and wouldn’t give up their demand for “Right of Return”?
The muslims demand Israel give the right to live in Israel to any muslim who claims to have had a relative who once lived on Israeli land. (sort of like a Pigford deal for Palestinians in the sense that all they have to do is claim somethng - no proof required)
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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