Obama Draws the Line in the Middle East

LONDON ? On the eve of an election year, with Jewish donors and fund-raisers already restive over his approach to Israel, President Obama made a brave speech telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that ?the dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation? and urging him to accept Israeli borders at or close to the 1967 lines.

The president got 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008. Perhaps those words will cost him some of those votes ? although sentiment toward Israel among American Jews is slowly shifting.

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Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/05/21/obama_draws_the_line_in_the_middle_east_255828.html

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