From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The bottom line from Ramallah
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleToI’s Matti Friedman cuts to the essence of Obama’s Ramallah comments in this piece, “Reversing policy of first term, Obama says no preconditions to talks, noting, “The demand for a settlement freeze as a precondition appears no longer to have US backing. In his statement, Obama said a solution to other core issues would also solve the question of settlements. ‘If we can get direct negotiations started again, I believe the shape of a potential deal is there,’ Obama said.”
Out on the streets of Ramallah, meantime, our Elhanan Miller runs into anti-Obama demonstrators, one of whom tells him: “Obama is worse than Bush because he knows better. He knows what American money for Iron Dome does. He knows what E1 means. He’s not an ignoramus like George Bush. As a young man he understood the situation in Palestine; he is a complete hypocrite.”
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