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WASHINGTON Exasperated by stalled Middle East peace talks in a season of tumultuous change, President Barack Obama jolted close ally Israel Thursday by embracing the Palestinians terms for drawing the borders of their new nation next door. Prime ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Egypt's U.N. envoy on Thursday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's support for a Palestinian state based on Israel's 1967 borders, though he said it lacked specifics on how to restart peace talks. Setting out the principles of a ...

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President Obama on Thursday said Middle East peace talks should resume, with a goal of placing the borders of Israel and Palestine on lines set before the 1967 war and mutually agreed-upon territorial swaps. Saying borders for the two countries will be ...

Washington - In a major speech that sought to reframe U.S. policy in the Mideast, President Barack Obama endorsed a key Palestinian demand Thursday for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful ...

President Obama personally injected himself into Arab-Israeli peace talks Thursday, saying the two sides should immediately resume peace talks based on pre-1967 Israeli borders. "Negotiations need to begin with the issues of territory and security," ...

US President Barack Obama for the first time publicly called for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders but with land swaps between the two sides, DPA reported. Obama's statement ...

US President Barack Obama Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, US President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly called for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called President Obamas call for a return to the 1967 Israeli-Palestinian borders a mistake. Anytime our president singles out an issue, it makes it more ...

In a Middle East policy speech at the State Department, President Obama said the pre-1967 border should serve as the basis for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, May 19, 2011. WASHINGTON (JTA) President Obama said the future state of Palestine should ...

US President Barack Obama declared the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on 1967 lines, likely setting up a new clash with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a long-awaited survey of the 'Arab spring' of revolts, Obama ...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister on Thursday gave a cool reception to President Barack Obama's Mideast policy speech, warning a withdrawal from the West Bank wold leave Israel vulnerable to attack and setting up what could be a tense meeting at the ...

Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama delivers a policy address on events in the Middle East at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Loading Forcefully stepping into an explosive Middle East ...

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Obama sees 'moment of opportunity' in Middle East President Obama on Thursday called out American friends in the Middle East for their treatment of peaceful protesters, naming Bahrain and Yemen along with Syria as states he said must yield to the ...

Beginning of Story Content Trying to advance debate in the explosive Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly ...

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Benjamin Netanyahus office has tweeted its response to President Obamas Middle East speech and the prime minister isnt happy with Obamas support for a peace plan based on Israels 1967 borders. The viability of a Palestinian state ... ...

It seems that we now find a contradiction between Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Obama says words And Netanyahu says the words of abuse and contradictory for Obama's speech He rejected Israeli Prime Minister ...

Forcefully stepping into an explosive Middle East debate, President Barack Obama has endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation based on "permanent ...