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ANALYSIS-Obama has blunt message for Arabs and Jews

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Posted on Friday June 5, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama had a blunt, “tough-love” message for Arabs and Israelis that thrust him deeper into Middle East peacemaking—a tangled web that bedeviled his predecessors and carries risks for him.

Quoting a Koran passage to “speak always the truth,” Obama set aside diplomatic niceties in demanding Israel stop building Jewish West Bank settlements that antagonize Palestinians, for Palestinians to work for peace and accept Israel’s right to exist and for Palestinian militants to halt violence.

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