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Obama: Netanyahu's speech could jumpstart peace talks
Haaretz, 2009-06-16 (Tuesday), Haaretz
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian independence as a way to restart peace talks and called on Arab neighbors to join the discussion.

Bending to U.S. pressure in a speech a day earlier, Netanyahu backed down on decades of opposition to Palestinian statehood by endorsing an independent state beside Israel. He invited the Palestinians and others in the Arab world to resume peace talks, but he attached conditions that were immediately derided as too restrictive.

Obama on Monday downplayed the immediate criticism from Arab neighbors as predictable.



"Well, first of all, I think it's important not to immediately assess the situation based on commentary the day after a speech," said Obama, whose aides distributed glowing reaction to his U.S.-Muslim speech the day after he delivered it in Cairo.

"I think any time an Israeli prime minister makes a statement, the immediate reaction tends to be negative on one side. If the other side is making a statement, oftentimes the reaction is negative in Israel," he said.

Netanyahu refused to freeze Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as the U.S. is demanding. He also demanded that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinians refugees give up their goal of returning to Israel.

Netanyahu insisted that a Palestinian state be demilitarized, and demanded that Jerusalem remain the capital of Israel.

Obama emphasized points of Netanyahu's speech he found agreeable - specifically the call for two states- but not the caveats.

"There were a lot of conditions, and obviously working through the conditions on Israel's side for security, as well as the Palestinian's side for sovereignty and territorial integrity and the capacity to have a functioning, prosperous state, that's exactly what negotiations are supposed to be about," Obama said.

"But what we're seeing is at least the possibility that we can restart serious talks," he said.

Netanyahu's announcement came a week after Obama addressed the Muslim world and strongly reiterated U.S. backing for independent Israeli and Palestinian states living side by side in peace. Obama's trip to the Middle East sought to repair U.S. relations with Muslim nations that were badly frayed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq.

On Monday, Obama repeated his position that the United States will stand behind Israel's defense, but he told both sides' leaders that they face difficult political choices.

"On the Israeli side, that means a cessation of settlements," said Obama, who publicly told Netanyahu the same during an Oval Office meeting earlier.

To the Palestinians, Obama repeated that leaders must end anti-Israeli rhetoric in schools and recognize Israel.

"Those are necessary pillars of any serious agreement that's to be reached," he said.

Obama also said that Arab neighbors must work with the Palestinians to tamp down tensions.

"Israel's security concerns extend beyond simply the Palestinian Territories," he said. "They extend to concerns that they have in a whole host of neighbors where there's perceived - and often real - hostility towards Israel's security."

Obama's remarks came at the end of an Oval Office meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

Deeply troubled by Iran violence

The U.S. President also said Monday that he was deeply troubled by post-election violence in Iran and urged the Islamic republic to investigate voting irregularities in a way that would not result in bloodshed.

Obama said he would continue pursuing tough, direct dialogue with Tehran despite deep differences with incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was officially declared the winner of last Friday's vote.

"I am deeply troubled by the violence that I've been seeing on television," Obama told reporters after his meeting with IBerlusconi.

"The democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent -- all those are universal values and need to be respected," he said.

Obama stressed that the United States respected Iran's sovereignty and could not judge how the election was run because neither U.S. nor international observers were present.

"The Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place," Obama said.

"It's important that moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views."

Obama said the world was inspired by Iranian demonstrators who marched against what they say was a rigged election.

"To those people who put so much hope and energy and optimism into the political process, I would say to them that the world is watching and inspired by their participation, regardless of what the ultimate outcome of the election was," Obama said.

Obama, a Democrat who has taken criticism from his Republican opponents for trying to engage with U.S. foes, said the election results did not alter his desire for direct diplomacy with Tehran.

"We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries and we'll see where it takes us," Obama said.

"The use of tough, hard-headed diplomacy -- diplomacy with no illusions about Iran and the nature of the differences between our two countries -- is critical when it comes to pursuing a core set of our national security interest."

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Haaretz

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