Mideast Peace Pact Next Obama Challenge
Anne Gearan, Associated Press
We've been here before and if history is a guide, we'll be here again.President Barack Obama is aiming for the prize that has eluded many U.S. presidents before him: a deal to form an independent Palestinian state and end six decades of conflict in the world's most volatile region.Obama will bring the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to Washington next month for a symbolic handshake and the start, yet again, of a new round of peace talks. The ambitious goal: a peace deal inside a year.The talks make good on an Obama campaign promise to confront the festering conflict early in...
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