(Los Angeles Times) Paul Richter - President Obama and other U.S. officials have explored whether the administration should offer its own Middle East peace proposal to break the logjam between Palestinians and Israelis, officials said Wednesday. While officials acknowledged that the idea has advocates within the Obama administration, several officials insisted that no proposal is now on the table, nor is the administration actively trying to develop one. Officials said Obama has taken no position on whether to prepare a U.S. peace proposal. Philip J. Crowley, the chief State Department spokesman, said: "We're prepared to play an active role once the parties get in negotiations....I would steer you away from the idea that...we're going to try to, at this point, impose a particular view on the parties." Several analysts said word of the administration's discussions of the idea may have been floated to shock the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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