Obama meets Abbas, presses Israel on settlements

2009/05/28 19:13:11 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday ratcheted up pressure on Israel to freeze settlements as he sought to reassure visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of U.S. support for Palestinian statehood. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=xGWM5KuiXVE:TzraoYmDPKY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=xGWM5KuiXVE:TzraoYmDPKY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=xGWM5KuiXVE:TzraoYmDPKY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=xGWM5KuiXVE:TzraoYmDPKY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=xGWM5KuiXVE:TzraoYmDPKY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/xGWM5KuiXVE" height="1" width="1"/
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