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Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast: 1967 Lines Under Consideration by Administration

(New York Times) Helene Cooper and Ethan Bronner - A busy week of diplomacy unfolds with President Obama's address on the Middle East and his meeting with Israel's prime minister. One administration official said that there remained debate about whether Mr. Obama would formally endorse Israel's pre-1967 borders as the starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state, a move that while not necessarily a policy shift, would send an oratorical signal that the U.S. expected Israel to make concessions. But Mr. Obama did not plan to present an American blueprint for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, White House officials said, and it remained unclear if he would even endorse a Palestinian state on pre-1967 lines, a move opposed, administration officials said, by his chief Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross.
2011-05-19 00:00:00
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