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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 30 days ago
Obama’s Settlement Climbdown
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Spencer Ackerman has a good post on the damage the Obama administration’s apparent climbdown on the settlement freeze issue is doing to moderate Palestinian leaders. From the perspective of Bibi Netanyahu, that’s great. He doesn’t want to freeze settlements, he doesn’t ...
haaretz.com - 11/2/2009
In Jerusalem, Clinton hails 'unprecedented' Israeli settlement concessions
— haaretz.com — Israel is making "unprecedented" concessions on West Bank settlement construction, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said... on Saturday after arriving in Israel in the latest U.S. bid to renew peace talks in the region. The Obama administration ... (more) In Jerusalem, Clinton hails 'unprecedented' Israeli ...

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Think Progress — ... Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told the press Monday that Arab leaders are likely to tell Secretary Clinton they are disappointed that the U.S. appears to be backing down on pressing for a settlement freeze from Israel. “I am telling you that all of us…are deeply disappointed…with the results, with the fact that Israel can get away with anything without any firm stand that ...

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