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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Obama on the need to acknowledge Palestinian claims
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEarly on in the interview, President Obama finds vague equivalence between the fate of the Jewish people and the situation of the Palestinians under Israeli military control. He speaks about the “moral imperative” behind the establishment of Israel – “those things also require me, from my perspective,” he says, to acknowledge the claims of “a Palestinian family in Ramallah” who suffer restrictions of movement.
“They have a claim on us, they have a claim on me,” says the US president.
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