Obama Sees ’67 Borders As Starting Point -- Steven Lee Myers and Mark Landler, New York TimesWASHINGTON — Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, President Obama on Thursday publicly called for the borders prevailing before the 1967 Israeli-Arab war to be the starting point for talks to settle the conflict there, the first time an American president has explicitly taken that position. He also said that a new Palestinian state should be demilitarized.
“At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are casting off the burdens of the past, the drive for a lasting peace that ends the conflict and resolves all claims is more urgent that ever,” he said.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Text of Obama’s Speech on the Middle East -- Wall Street Journal
In Arab world, disappointment Obama didn’t go further -- Oren Kessler, Jerusalem Post
Making the Land of Israel Whole -- Danny Danon, New York Times
Writing the Middle East’s new narrative -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
Mahmoud Abbas’s formula for war -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
What US sanctions mean for Assad and Syria's crackdown -- Nicholas Blanford, Christian Science Monitor
Cracks in the House of Assad -- Michael Bröning, Foreign Affairs
U.S. to Partner with Taliban...Instead of Killing Them - Andrew G. Bostom, American Thinker
US aid in Pakistan: Where's the money going? -- Ben Arnoldy and Issam Ahmed, Christian Science Monitor
Did Kerry wander off the reservation in Pakistan? -- Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Tahrir Square in Madrid. Spain's Lost Generation Finds Its Voice -- Spiegel Online
Senators to Obama: Announce End to DOJ Investigation of Interrogators During CIA Visit -- Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard
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