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Obama Meets With Abbas, Netanyahu Next Week

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(AP) – President Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed negotiations on Mideast peace. The three-way meeting, which will be on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly forum, will take place immediately after Obama meets separately with each of the two leaders.

Obama has set the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as a major goal of his young presidency, and he dispatched George Mitchell as a White House envoy to soften the ground on both sides. Mitchell has had a hard go, with a new hawkish Israeli leader on one side and an increasingly dispirited Palestinian leader on the other. The key disputes are over Israeli settlement expansion and whether peace talks should begin where they left off under Netanyahu's predecessors.

Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas.   (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell waves to the press as he walks into his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.
U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell waves to the press as he walks into his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.   (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, right, are seen at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem Tuesday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, right, are seen at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem Tuesday   (AP Photo/David Silverman, Pool)
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dontlikeyou
Sep 20, 09 6:50 PM CDT
Poor "dispirited" Palestinian leader.
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hughchi
Sep 19, 09 10:49 PM CDT
There is only one solution to the Mideast crisis. Israel must relinquish all occupied territories - West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Then and only then can peace in the Middle East be realized. Reply
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Enoughie
Sep 19, 09 11:00 PM CDT
Yeah. It's that easy! Because before Israel had these territories (pre-1967 War) there surely was peace in the Middle East..
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freethemall
Sep 19, 09 11:25 PM CDT
Some would say that the Palestinians want peace, and desire to achieve their goal of peace by pushing the "Zionists" into the sea. In their mind its their land, and the "Zionists" are occupiers. Therefore, I see less then little to be optimistic about. But hope springs eternal. (forgive the cliche).
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WharfRat
Sep 19, 09 11:41 PM CDT
If that is true, then it is also true that the "Zionists" would like to see the Palestinians out of the region. But neither option is realistic. A compromise must be reached. These two ethnic factions are actually closely related and lived in peace for centuries before the last 60 years. It is not too late for a new generation to say enough is enough and old tribal divisions bring only despair to both parties.
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