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Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/11/president_obama_and_palestine
Is America Bribing Bibi or Blackmailing Him?
(Economist-UK) Lexington - There another way of looking at the supposed U.S. "incentive" being offered to Israel. Until this weekend, most people assumed that Israel enjoyed an unconditional American promise to maintain its military edge, and a nearly unconditional promise to support it in the UN. Now it seems that President Obama is making the continuation of some of these things conditional on Israel's acceptance of a three-month settlement freeze, during which Israel will be pressed to agree to final borders with a putative Palestinian state in the West Bank.