The Atlantic Wire - President Barack Obama's speech today to the United Nations general assembly (full text here) called for the world to join him in pushing for Israel-Palestine peace and a two-state solution. Direct peace talks, of which there have been three so far, have struggled against expanding Israeli settlements and unclear Palestinian polital unity. Will Obama's appeal to the United Nations make a difference? What does it mean for the U.S.-Israel-Palestine triangle and for the world's most important multilateral institution, the UN? The relevant section of Obama's speech is posted below the reactions.
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