Obama Doubles Down On Middle East Peace Drive

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Source: AFP

NEW YORK (AFP)--U.S. President Barack Obama will Thursday tell world powers at the United Nations they can help seal a deal within a year to welcome a new member--Palestine--by backing his Middle East peace drive.

Obama will wager substantial political and diplomatic capital on his effort to forge an elusive deal, and call on Arab states and the rest of the world to overcome the paralysis surrounding regional peace talks for years.

The president will tell the U.N. General Assembly it is time for key regional players to draw on traditions of tolerance common to Islam, Judaism and Christianity to forge peace.

"If we do, when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations--an independent state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel," Obama will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the White House.


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1. This is a mistake. He should focus only on the economy.

And nothing else. We shouldn't even pay our soldiers until the economy is fixed. We shouldn't even be thinking about any legislation in Congress other than those bills having to do with the economy.

I believe these things because I am a republican and I like to act like our government is HUGE...but also that it is so SMALL it can do only one thing at a time.