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Obama: Chances of Israel-PA Peace Less than 50%
INN ^ | 1/20/2014, 3:13 AM | Elad Benari

Posted on 01/19/2014 6:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama is not as optimistic as his Secretary of State regarding the possibility of peace between Israel and the Arabs.

Obama, who gave an interview to the New Yorker magazine on Sunday, said that he believed the odds of reaching a peace agreement were less than 50%.

The President told the magazine’s editor David Remnick that these odds were true in all three of his main initiatives in the region—with Iran, with Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and with Syria.

“On the other hand,” he said, “in all three circumstances we may be able to push the boulder partway up the hill and maybe stabilize it so it doesn’t roll back on us. And all three are connected. I do believe that the region is going through rapid change and inexorable change. Some of it is demographics; some of it is technology; some of it is economics. And the old order, the old equilibrium, is no longer tenable. The question then becomes, ‘What’s next?’” …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: davidremnick; egypt; iran; israel; jordan; lebanon; lurch; newyorker; obama; peaceprocess; rop; saudiarabia; syria; turkey; twostatesolution; waronterror

1 posted on 01/19/2014 6:08:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I say less than 0 percent.
Freegards
LEX


2 posted on 01/19/2014 6:11:55 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Olog-hai
wow such wonderful odds!

Id suggest....to the great leader...that he BUTT OUT...but expecting any results from such a waste of breath would be futile ...and Im 100 PERCENT CERTAIN of that!


3 posted on 01/19/2014 6:12:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The “Great Leader” has not read “The Book”.

The odds are zero...until The Prince of Peace.


4 posted on 01/19/2014 6:21:38 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Olog-hai

Kerry slips under the Obammiebus.


5 posted on 01/19/2014 6:24:23 PM PST by 867V309 (I love potatoes-except, of course, Lena Dunham)
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To: Olog-hai

Since when to we give odds


6 posted on 01/19/2014 6:24:40 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: JudyinCanada

The Great Leader is a slimey small minded dishonest pretender who will receive precisely what he deserves on Judgement Day.

obama is nothing but The One we All Should have Been LOOKING OUT FOR....if you KNOW what I mean


7 posted on 01/19/2014 6:27:11 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Oh ya - I know what you mean.

The emperor has no clothes. Someone needs to call him out.


8 posted on 01/19/2014 6:29:47 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada
oh that he read his own email... I have a few dozen choice items Id love to SHARE with him...


9 posted on 01/19/2014 6:38:36 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Olog-hai

There are no Palestians


10 posted on 01/19/2014 6:41:30 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Olog-hai; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

About the fifth topic about that New Yorker mag interview with David Remnick, thanks Olog-hai.


11 posted on 01/19/2014 7:05:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Olog-hai

ah ha!............ Bibi won’t throw his little country under the bus for you, O, eh?


12 posted on 01/19/2014 7:16:33 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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To: Olog-hai

What’s this? The last I heard Jesus himself (AKA John Effin Kerry) was over there sorting things out.


13 posted on 01/19/2014 7:54:49 PM PST by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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To: Olog-hai

Peace in the Middle East, brought about by Obama, would confirm my biggest fear.


14 posted on 01/19/2014 8:45:43 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Olog-hai

All these morons playing grown-up and talking like 3rd graders. No sense of decorum or professional responsibility so they keep saying crap that only adds gas to the fires they lit.


15 posted on 01/20/2014 3:52:46 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: JudyinCanada

That’s not “The Book” where he comes from.


16 posted on 01/20/2014 3:55:24 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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