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Obama Admin Urges Israeli-Palestinian Final-Status Talks But Abandons Insistence on Israeli Settlement Freeze

The Obama administration has abandoned a demand that Israel freeze settlement expansion before the resumption of peace talks. President Obama signaled the shift on Tuesday as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, author of several books, including his latest, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations.

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[kadaveri]

The USA could stop the settlements tomorrow if they really wanted to. Israel is dependent on billions of dollars of US aid as well as total US protection via its veto from any serious diplomatic or legal consequences of its actions. All the US has to say is stop building settlements on Palestinian territory or we'll start cutting your aid.

[Ahmadintube]

OBAMA : sorry you sound just the same like all the other administrations. Palestinians are suffering because of USA support for israel, if only the american people KNEW!!!!!!.

[agmapleleaf93]

@kadaveri u.s. has not had the political will for decades

[Musicofthissphere]

Ironic that people criticize FOX news when the Left doesn't entertain any other truth than their truth. Sad. The issue is not these tiny meaningless settlements, it's the complete unwillingness of the Arabs to accept a Jewish state in the presence of 23 Muslim states. Amy Goodman and the British author are 2 of the most despicable traitors to Jewish preservation the world has ever seen

[tonylee1973]

Doesn't Hamas see that America wants the settlements to stop?