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Obama Defends Abbas to US Rabbis
Reported: 10:45 AM - Sep/08/10
According to American rabbis on a White House conference call Tuesday, United States President Barack Obama indicated that he understood recent statements from the American-backed Palestinian Authority threatening to quit negotiations with Israel as political posturing. Obama, who spoke with rabbis of various denominations in a call marking Rosh HaShanah, was asked by a participant about comments from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas perceived in Israel as hostile to the negotiating process he launched with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu just last week in Washington.



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