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Article: Long way from 'Settlerland' to 'Palestineland'

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JERUSALEM (IPS) - Has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got the Obama message? To judge by his minimalist response to President Barack Obama's landmark Cairo University address and his continuing reluctance to meet Obama's demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlements, the answer would seem to be, 'No'.

It's a mighty challenge for Netanyahu to counter, especially since he roots his political strategy in an exclusivist vision of what suits only a small percentage of Israelis, the 300,000 settlers in the West Bank, and in a policy that insists on Israel being allowed to go on building more homes in Palestinian territory.

The depth of Netanyahu's distress is in direct proportion to ...

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