Haaretz Service and News Agencies: Obama: Mideast peace deal likely if sides show compromise
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Title:Compromise will never be the issue
Name:G. Grante
City: VancouverState: Canada
Obama states: "`I think that the idea of a secure Jewish state is a fundamentally just idea, and a necessary idea, given not only world history but the active existence of anti-Semitism, the potential vulnerability that the Jewish people could still experience," Obama said in a recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic.`

But doesn`t Obama understand yet that Israel is not a "fundamentally just idea . . . a necessary idea", that it is already a state? And how presumptuous of him to think he can now voice his misconstrued advice about Israel`s future as his lead of delegates increases in the bid to win the U.S. presidential election this fall! This is political posturing on the part of an American presidential nominee hopeful. Nothing else.