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Obama, in key speech, to target Israelis who could make or
break a future peace
If there is any reason to believe that Obama charm or
electrify his student audience into seeing advantages to renewed peace moves,
it will be the fact that many of them have had it up to here with the
ideologies that have kept this country polarized for the whole of its brief
history.
By Bradley
Burston
Barack Obama has shown that he can change the world in one
speech. More than once.
But he's yet to face a challenge, or an audience, like the
one invited to Jerusalem's
convention center Thursday.
The speech to Israeli students has been widely viewed as the
cornerstone of Obama's current visit to Israel. It may also prove the hinge
event, one of the determinants in the question of whether the presidential
swing will prove historic, or little more than a footnote.
Obama and Jordan's
Abdullah
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/watch-live-president-obamas-last-stop-on-mideast-tour-is-jordan.html
Obama and Jordan-s Abdullah Discuss Peace Process,
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Obama's two-day visit will include talks with King Abdullah
II on bilateral relations, regional developments including the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Syrian crisis, and the conditions of
Syrian refugees in Jordan.
The two leaders are scheduled to hold a press conference at
the Royal offices in Amman
Friday evening.
Obama arrived in Jordan following a trip to Tel Aviv
where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, followed by a
visit to Ramallah where he met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Obama is scheduled to visit the rose-red city of Petra on Saturday as part
of his trip.
President Obama was received at the airport by Minister of
Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh and number of senior officials, including the U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Stuart E. Jones and
the Jordanian ambassador to the U.S.
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=20513
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=20515
Jordan
briefly grounds air traffic as Obama arrives
AMMONNEWS - Jordan's
airspace was briefly closed Friday evening in part of security measures during
the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Jordan, Ammon News learned.
All flights were grounded for a brief period of time ahead
of Obama's arrival Friday evening, causing a slight delay in airplane
departures from Queen
Alia International
Airport.
Obama arrived in Amman around
5:45 PM on a two-day visit which will include talks with King Abdullah II on
bilateral relations, regional developments, the peace process, and the
escalating crisis in neighboring Syria.
Obama is scheduled to visit the rose-red city of Petra on Saturday before his return to the U.S.
The U.S. President arrived in Jordan
following a regional tour that included Israel and the Palestinian
territories, where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel
Aviv and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in an attempt to
jump-start the peace negotiations.
Obama ends Middle East trip with visit to Petra ruins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21909614
US
President Barack Obama is ending his visit to the Middle East with a trip to
the famous ruins of the ancient city of Petra in
Jordan.
The diplomatic part of his visit ended on Friday when he met
King Abdullah and pledged an additional $200m (£131m) to help Syrian refugees
in Jordan.
Correspondents say his four-day visit has yielded mixed
results.
He brokered an Israeli rapprochement with Turkey but
there was little progress on the Palestinian issue.
The BBC's North America editor, Mark Mardell, says the
American leader's clear warmth towards Israel comes at a price, and many
in the Arab world will feel let down.
Yet, our editor adds, he brought a subtle message to young
Israelis that every people deserves freedom and a land of its own.
Israeli apology
The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red
stone, dates back 2,000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing
more than half a million visitors each year.
Most of the president's time in the Middle East was spent in
Israel
where he held several meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A highlight of the visit came when Mr Netanyahu apologised
to Turkey for "any
errors that could have led to loss of life" during the 2010 commando raid
on an aid flotilla that tried to breach the Gaza blockade.
He also agreed to compensate the families of the nine
Turkish activists who were killed.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said he
had accepted the apology, "in the name of the Turkish people".
Petra
was famous as a trading post in ancient times
Mr Obama also briefly visited Ramallah in the West Bank to meet Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the
Palestinian Authority.
He urged Palestinians to drop their demands for a freeze in
Israeli settlement-building as a precondition for peace talks.
However, a spokesman for Mr Abbas said the Palestinian
leader had told Mr Obama the precondition remained in place.
Speaking to an audience of young Israelis in Jerusalem, Mr Obama
praised Jewish nationhood before turning the argument around by stressing the
need for Palestinians to share these same values of self-determination and
justice.
"It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up
in a state of her own living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign
army that controls the movements of her parents every single day," Mr
Obama said.
The US
leader is due to return to Washington
later on Saturday.