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Mideast peace plan puts Netanyahu on the spot
Financial Times via Peninsula Qatar ^ | May 15, 2009 | Philip Stephens

Posted on 05/15/2009 6:52:47 AM PDT by VRWCTexan

Amid much international applause, Barack Obama is resuming the quest for a Middle East settlement. On Monday the president will receive Netanyahu at the White House. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader and Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, are due the following week. Early next month, Obama will speak to the Arab, and Muslim, world from a podium in Cairo. If all goes to plan - and this being the Middle East it is a very big “if” - a peace conference could follow.

The administration is not contemplating a tortuous process stretching through Obama’s presidency. As Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, puts it, instead of drawn-out talks, it is looking for “real results”....Ms Rice indicated that the US wants to reinvigorate proceedings of the Quartet - the group comprising the US, Russia, the UN and European Union....she added that the intention was to integrate into the process the Saudi-sponsored Arab Peace Initiative

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; netanyahu; obama; peace

1 posted on 05/15/2009 6:52:48 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
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To: VRWCTexan
Well, he's fixed the economy, the auto industry, the housing industry, the health care industry, and the Afghan theater. This should be a snap.
2 posted on 05/15/2009 6:58:58 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: VRWCTexan
Remember,Mr Neyanyahu...when describing the likes of Hussein,Ralph Waldo Emerson put it best...

"The louder he proclaimed his honor the faster we counted the spoons"

3 posted on 05/15/2009 7:01:48 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: VRWCTexan

Can’t 0be just issue a TOTUS proclamation declaring the ME issues closed over within a year, similar to the “closing” of Gitmo?


4 posted on 05/15/2009 7:03:02 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Paladin2

“over” —> “”


5 posted on 05/15/2009 7:04:15 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: VRWCTexan
The administration is not contemplating a tortuous process stretching through Obama’s presidency.

Arrogant, ignorant dreamer.

Israel ain't Chrysler, and won't buckle because they simply cannot. The Obamination has never seen films of his starved and tortured relatives being bulldozed into mass graves, nor some whose skin was made into lampshades or many with numbers tattooed into their arms and horror imprinted forever on their minds. He hasn't a fooking clue about the mindset of the Arabs. This is a case of an mmoveable object vs. an irresistable force.

So where the amateur-in-chief thinks he'll get a peace treaty from I don't know. Putz.

6 posted on 05/15/2009 7:20:33 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: Ancesthntr

While some “joke” about it - IMHO obama does in reality suffer from a “messiah” complex...


7 posted on 05/15/2009 7:25:11 AM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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8 posted on 05/15/2009 7:59:16 AM PDT by SJackson (A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity, S. Freud)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
The administration is not contemplating a tortuous process stretching through Obama's presidency. As Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, puts it, instead of drawn-out talks, it is looking for "real results"....Ms Rice indicated that the US wants to reinvigorate proceedings of the Quartet - the group comprising the US, Russia, the UN and European Union....she added that the intention was to integrate into the process the Saudi-sponsored Arab Peace Initiative

9 posted on 05/15/2009 8:31:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SJackson

Obama, Brown, the E.U., U.N. and the rest of the neo-Marxists are still in livid Bibi & the Likud are indeed the Israeli government, and not the appeasing collection of crooked defeated one’s from Kadima & Labour.


10 posted on 05/15/2009 11:16:51 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: SJackson

11 posted on 05/16/2009 8:24:59 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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