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Obama Rebuffed as Palestinians Pursue UN Seat

(New York Times) Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers - A last-ditch American effort to head off a Palestinian bid for membership in the UN faltered. President Obama tried to qualify his own call, just a year ago, for a Palestinian state. And President Nicolas Sarkozy of France stepped forcefully into the void, with a proposal that pointedly repudiated Obama's approach. Even before Obama declared to the General Assembly that "Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the UN," American officials acknowledged that their last-minute attempts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian negotiations with help from European allies and Russia had collapsed.

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