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This is an archive article published on May 24, 2011

Take 5: Speech and after

Three days after Obamas speech in the State Department,telling Israel that talks with Palestinians should be based on the 1967 borders,Obama made peace with Israelis on Sunday,when in his address to AIPAC,a powerful pro-Israel lobby,he said a final peace deal must recognise Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people. Reactions after the two speeches.

We are not in the business of delegitimising Israel. Were in the business of legitimising Palestinians

Maen Rashid Areikat,a Palestinian diplomat and chief of the Palestine Liberation Organizations delegation in Washington,on CNNs State of the Union

I think defining the 1967 border would be an act of suicide for Israel8230;I do not believe we should have any pressure on Israel as long as Hamas policy is the destruction of Israel8230;

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Sundays CBS program Face the Nation,labelling President Obamas Israeli-Palestinian policy a disaster

The Palestinian refugee problem will have to be resolved in the context of a Palestinian state,but certainly not in the borders of IsraelIts time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly its not going to happen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Oval Office lecture

Obamas speech is a disaster to all those who have been bidding on US policies and positions. We reject such statements which prove that the Americans are completely biased in favour of occupation at the expense of Palestinian rights.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan reacting to Obamas AIPAC speech

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Anyone who studies history,studies the Old Testament,studies geography understands that Israel now is surrounded by enemies at all times8230;.Im going to call President Obama a temporary leader,because my goal is to make sure he is not reelected in 2012

Republican leader Sarah Palin in an interview on Fox News on Saturday

 

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