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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/05/symbol-of-obamas-hostility-to-united-jerusalem/
A Symbol of Obama's Hostility to a United Jerusalem
(Commentary) Jonathan S. Tobin - President Obama's decision to speak of Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem as "settlements" that must be frozen and his insistence on using the 1967 lines as the starting point for future negotiations - as opposed to Bush's frank acknowledgment that those neighborhoods and the surrounding settlement blocs will always be part of Israel - has put the status of Jerusalem back on the political front burner.