President Obama now D AN THE M
AN WITH A PLAN!
Obama in a Big Hurry to Get This Show on the Road,
DIPLOMATIC & DIALOG SQUEEZE ISRAEL IN HIS HAND,
As the Two leading stickers in his box of Horned Toads,
As settlement freeze and 2 state plan he doth Demand!
Arabs are Happy With All Obama’s Friendly Dancing Odes,
As Obama Plans Giving Israel’s Land To Ishmael’s Big Clan,
Cause Obama won’t acknowledge God made it Jew’s Abode
In this land God gave THEM, NOT Barack the man with a Plan!
June 12, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
PA: New U.S. Administration “One of the Friendliest in Decades”
Khaled Abu Toameh
(Jerusalem Post)
PA officials expressed deep satisfaction with talks on Wednesday
with U.S. envoy George Mitchell, saying the new Obama administration was “one of the friendliest in decades.”
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat quoted Mitchell as saying that the Obama administration wanted a quick start and a quick end to the peace talks.
During the meeting, the PA leaders reiterated their refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state.
Begin Excerpt from Asharq Al-Awsat
U.S. Plan to End Palestinian/Israeli Conflict within Two Years
Egyptian Sources
Asharq Al-Awsat Exclusive
June 9, 2009
By Salaah jum’ah in Cairo and Saleh al Naeimi in Gaza
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=17014
Asharq Al-Awsat has learned that during the Egyptian delegation’s visit to
Washington on 26 May, the US briefed Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar
Suleiman, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu el Gheit, on what Egyptian
sources described as “a plan to end the Palestinian/Israeli conflict within two years on the basis of a two state solution.” Washington then called for a swift response from the Arab side.
The source informed Asharq Al-Awsat that “the US officials also informed the
Egyptian delegation that they had notified Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu of the plan during his recent visit to Washington, and they had called on him to provide a response within six weeks.”
The source added that the Egyptian political leadership sensed that Obama was extremely serious [about achieving peace in the Middle East], and that the only obstacle to this is
the inter-Palestinian division.
Egypt therefore has decided to consult with a number of Arab leaders in order to heal the Palestinian rift as soon as possible. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has assigned the task of ending the Palestinian division to Egyptian Intelligence Minister General Omar Suleiman, who informed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the situation. Abbas then sent a high-level delegation headed by former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to Cairo.
Begin excerpt from Al Jazeera and agencies
US envoy to visit Lebanon and Syria
June 10, 2009
The US envoy for the Middle East is set to visit Lebanon and Syria as part of a tour to push forward a regiona
l peace initiative.
George Mitchell will hold meetings in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on Thursday and Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Friday and Saturday, Ian Kelly, a US state department spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Kelly said that the assignments were being carried out as part of President Barack Obama’s attempts to achieve a “comprehensive peace” in the region.
It will be Mitchell’s first visit to Lebanon and Syria since taking the post, although it is his fourth trip to the region in the same period.
Mitchell is already in the region having landed in Israel on Tuesday in a visit which aims to lay the groundwork for peace negotiations.
‘Immediate talks’
Mitchell opened his meetings with Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, before travelling to Jerusalem to meet Binyamin Netanyahu,
the prime minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister, and Shimon Peres, the president.
Mitchell said that Washington wanted Israel and the Palestinians to hold “immediate talks”.
He will hold talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
“We all share an obligation to create the conditions for the prompt resumption and early conclusion of negotiations,” Mitchell said before meeting Peres.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland, reporting from Jerusalem, said: “Right at the top of George Mitchell’s agenda is the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.”
“This is an issue that the Americans feel progress can be made on and progress must be made on, in order to create the right kind of atmosphere to push on the peace process with the Palestinians, which has been stalled for a couple of years now.”
“We’re now engaged in serious discussions with our Israeli and Palestinian and regional partners to support these efforts.”
Before setting off for the region, Mitchell told reporters at a Palestinian donors’ conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, that renewed talks between Israel and the Palestinians would serve “the security interests of the United States”.
Settlement freeze
Mitchell has long advocated the need for a settlement freeze as necessary for any tangible progress on peacemaking. “Israelis and Palestinians have a responsibility to meet their obligations under the roadmap,” he said on Tuesday, referring to the 2003 agreement which requires the end of settlement construction.
But Israel, apparently unfazed, has continued to build or expand settlements that are considered illegal internationally, arguing that so-called natural expansion cannot be stopped.
Settlement construction has doubled since Israel recommitted to halting itn at the Annapolis conference 18 months ago and there are plans for 75,000 new housing units, one-third of which have already been approved.
Half a million Jews already live in settlement blocks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Netanyahu has said he is ready to hold talks with Abbas, focusing on economic, security and political issues.
But Palestinians have rejected his proposed shift of focus away from territorial issues, whose complexity, Netanyahu has said, has frustrated US-backed attempts to reach a final peace deal.
Abbas has said renewed negotiations would be pointless unless Netanyahu first endorsed Palestinian statehood and halted the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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