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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Gideon Levy / Obama, you won't make peace without talking to Hamas

Ha'aretz
It's as if U.S. President Barack Obama did the least he had to. He "rebuked" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. That's not how a president with star power acts. That is not how a superpower does things. America is again falling down on the job, and Obama is betraying his mission and the promise of his presidency. Full story
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