The Palestinian Authority welcomed Obama’s stand in calling the Palestinian situation “intolerable,” reiterating his support for a sovereign Palestine, and saying that Jewish settlements must stop.
“It is a clear and frank speech,” President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP. “It is an innovative political step and a good beginning on which one must build.”
The speech broke with the “preceeding partial American policy” in favor of Israel, he said. Read more »
