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U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (AP)
Last update - 23:50 18/05/2008
Obama: Mideast peace deal likely if sides show compromise
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Tags: Palestinians, Middle East 

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday that Presodent George Bush's successor in the White House could help achieve a peace agreement if both sides showed a willingness to compromise.

"The Israelis are going to have to acknowledge that some of the settlement policies make it very difficult to create a functioning Palestinian state. The Palestinians, they've got to
recognize Israel and they've got to stop threatening violence," Obama said at a campaign stop in Gresham, Oregon.
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Last week, Obama adviser and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, said Jerusalem must be included in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

"It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table," Kurtzer said in a conference organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI).

Since the beginning of his campaign, Obama has fought to gain Jewish support despite doubts over his commitment to Israel and a smudge campaign over his alliance with anti-Semitic elements of the Nation of Islam.

He has defined himself as a "stalwart" supporter of Israel, and has also said he supports the notion of a Jewish state as "fundamentally just" and "necessary."

"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.
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  1.   Positive outcome of peace deal 23:52  |  Andrew 18/05/08
  2.   Just threatening, Obama? 00:25  |  Sam C 19/05/08
  3.   Compromise will never be the issue 00:26  |  G. Grante 19/05/08
  4.   A jewish homeland 00:45  |  Wendy 19/05/08
  5.   Obama the peace president 00:48  |  Ivar 19/05/08
  6.   Andres - Hyperbole leads Israel nowhere 01:06  |  American 19/05/08
  7.   The Jews may overplay their card 01:07  |  Voter 19/05/08
  8.   they`ve got to stop threatening violence 01:15  |  vik 19/05/08
  9.   Positive Outcome 01:20  |  jerry 19/05/08
  10.   JPPPI: collection of useful (Jewish) idiots 01:38  |  spade 19/05/08
  11.   fingers crossed... 01:39  |  gearoid 19/05/08
  12.   About time 01:53  |  Guy From NYC 19/05/08
  13.   How nice! 02:09  |  Mark Lincoln 19/05/08
  14.   It`s a smear campaign 02:20  |  Amnon 19/05/08
  15.   News for Obama - It is Violence, Not Just Threat of Violence 02:29  |  Tod Zuckerman 19/05/08
  16.   Obama should be calling for Palestinians to renounce "RoR" 03:00  |  McQueen 19/05/08
  17.   Israel is exist and doesn?t need to be recognize by terrorisms 03:11  |  e.m Jordan is Pales 19/05/08
  18.   What does he mean "a fundamentally just idea"? 03:14  |  Nechama 19/05/08
  19.   Obama will keep sharks away # 1 03:28  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/05/08
  20.   The equation doesn`t balance. 03:42  |  George Jochnowitz 19/05/08
  21.   See what I mean Obama middle East Policy is Saudi Inspired 03:58  |  david 19/05/08
  22.   Compromise "this word does not exist in arab language" 04:31  |  bengurion 19/05/08
  23.   Mark Lincoln, Is Israel willing to pull back to the 1967 borders? 04:47  |  Bruce 19/05/08
  24.   The transparency of Barak Obama 05:03  |  Connie 19/05/08
  25.   Settlements and the future Palestinian State 05:07  |  Joe Frazier 19/05/08
  26.   I would like to see of Obama`s contributors 06:21  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  27.   Anyone but Obama 06:31  |  Ruth Broch 19/05/08
  28.   #22 Well Ben Jabo 06:58  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  29.   #27 Ruth, nobody but Obama! 07:00  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  30.   #@4 Say Connie, Obama is all for you! 07:05  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  31.   #11 Fingers crossed 07:10  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  32.   I have returned 07:11  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  33.   #12 Guy from NYC - who said he was honest 07:17  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  34.   Let us hope that O`Bama is more honest 07:21  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  35.   #7 Voter - Be specific, which false statements 07:24  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  36.   ballistic did you see the McCain story? 07:27  |  BBSNews 19/05/08
  37.   WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING 07:39  |  jared 19/05/08
  38.   Obama is bad news for Israel 07:50  |  Natallie Durson 19/05/08
  39.   HE WILL BECOME US NEXT PRESIDENT: 100% POSSIBILITY 08:09  |  indrajaya 19/05/08
  40.   "Israel must reevaluate settlements,...." 08:26  |  Esther 19/05/08
  41.   thank you for the lecture and for the platitudes 08:45  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/05/08
  42.   Diplomacy, then violence 08:45  |  Jean Van Daem 19/05/08
  43.   Barak Hussein Obama is the last person to whom I would listen 09:04  |  Ron 19/05/08
  44.   Stupid 09:05  |  Steve 19/05/08
  45.   Conditions on victims 09:27  |  Truth 19/05/08
  46.   Indrajaya #39 09:53  |  Steve 19/05/08
  47.   Obama, you put yourself in deep trouble 10:01  |  El-Birawi 19/05/08
  48.   #38, Durson, what is the point of your post? 10:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/05/08
  49.   Re Jared #37 10:10  |  Esther 19/05/08
  50.   That`s exactly what Obamas electorate wants to hear...... 10:21  |  Swiss (Dino) 19/05/08
  51.   Re Cipora`s "why?" #48 10:37  |  Esther 19/05/08
  52.   Obama; 10:48  |  Boris 19/05/08
  53.   Obama is Great News for Israel 11:08  |  Alan 19/05/08
  54.   Let us transform US and Canada to an Israeli model 11:14  |  El-Birawi 19/05/08
  55.   #51, Esther 11:22  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/05/08
  56.   Joe Frazier 12:14  |  Said 19/05/08
  57.   Re Cipora #55 12:27  |  Esther 19/05/08
  58.   CONSIDERED HE IS ELECTED AS A US NEW PRESIDENT 12:51  |  indrajaya 19/05/08
  59.   Demorats writing on the walll 13:17  |  The Dems are coming 19/05/08
  60.   israel...watch out! obama...like ms. rice; isn`t quite blind! 13:27  |  eric 19/05/08
  61.   #23 apparently not (Israel accepting `67 borders) 14:05  |  chris 19/05/08
  62.   Ever read the BSnews Story 14:25  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  63.   #54 El Birawi - Somewhere out there in space 15:17  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  64.   #61 Chris - Munich 15:25  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  65.   O´bama: another ignorant on the ME-mentality! 15:34  |  AliciaYasmeen 19/05/08
  66.   #64 No more fooling will be allowed! 15:46  |  chris 19/05/08
  67.   Obama reading the cue cards 17:14  |  Sam 19/05/08
  68.   I wonder if that was actually a statement or a "SNIPPET" 17:24  |  * BEN JABO 19/05/08
  69.   #36 BBS News 17:42  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  70.   #33 Say Ben Jabo---Fox News???? 17:44  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  71.   #35 Ben J re Wright 17:48  |  ballistic 19/05/08
  72.   I am still checking out which psychiatric faciliaties 18:06  |  ballistic