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Obama determined to continue with Middle East peace efforts | United States President Barack Obama has said that he would continue with his administration's
diplomatic efforts for Middle East peace until negotiations are relaunched between
Israel and Palestine. Obama said this after a trilateral meeting with Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "It
is absolutely critical that we get this issue resolved. We cannot continue the
same pattern of taking a few tentative steps forward and then stepping back,"
Csmoniter.com quoted Obama, as saying. To restart the peace talks, Obama further
directed top foreign policy officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and Middle East envoy George Mitchell, to keep up the efforts with Israeli and
Palestinian leaders. Meanwhile, several Middle East analysts emphasized that Obama
was simply learning the lesson of past US presidents, and has understood that
no solution can be reached until both the parties got involved. "It's a very good
thing that Obama is not giving up, but I think he is learning that this won't
happen quickly and will probably take a long time," said Doron Ben-Atar, a specialist
in Middle East affairs at Fordham University in New York. "At the same time it
is just untrue to say that it serves no purpose for the Americans to push. When
they don't, things don't just stay the same, they get worse," he added. Obama
also met both the leaders separately before the trilateral meeting. It was also
the first meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas. |
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