[Johan Bollen]

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He (Obama dus) tactfully and firmly states several areas of fundamental US disagreement with Likud and even with Labor and Kadima, which have tended to disagree more in rhetoric for public consumption than in practical policy. It covers Israeli nukes, recognition of a Palestinian state solution, an end to settlements, and by implication, opening the border to Gaza. It also hints at the possibility of engagement with Hamas and a shared Jerusalem as "a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims". The sound of silence is deafening for all those who believe in an undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish state.