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Trying To Get Israelis and Palestinians to Negotiate

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Barack Obama had dangled the hope that the organization would host ‘next year a new member of a sovereign State of Palestine living in peace with Israel’. Delegates had warmly applauded even though they knew that the American president had not yet managed to bring Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate directly.

A year later, Barack Obama has arrived, Monday, Sept. 19 in New York in a very different position. Caught by the domestic situation, it was not at the forefront of Western support for Arab revolutions.

Since February, he has not spoken to Mahmoud Abbas, to whom he dedicated one of his first calls to his arrival in the Oval Office in 2009. Obama now has his hands tied. The White House is in the field. At fourteen months of the presidential election, the president candidate does not alienate an electorate deeply concerned about the big ‘solitude’ to Israel deal with turmoil in the region, in the words of Washington Post.

Even more than usual, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a domestic political issue. In full primary campaign, Republicans are competing. Campaign posters showing a smiling Obama with Mahmoud Abbas, accused of not being pro-Israel. For Mitt Romney, a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination, the President ‘sabotaging Israel’s ability to negotiate’.

In New York, Sept. 13, an election in the Ninth Circuit has seen a Republican win in a Democratic stronghold, and provided a strong Jewish community. Many parameters were taken into account to explain this setback but the fact that former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democratic figure,

Obama asked EPA to withdraw a fight against air pollution

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Bowing to industry concerns, U.S. President Barack Obama against all odds to Friday asked Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw a project to fight against air pollution. This decision, says in a statement, part of an effort to lighten the regulatory burden imposed on business activity.

The project was terminated by the manufacturers who claimed that its implementation would result in the loss of thousands of jobs and a bill for billions of dollars at a time when the U.S. economy continues to struggle to reconnect with solid growth.

Released shortly before Obama’s announcement, the employment statistics showed Friday that unemployment was unchanged in August at 9.1% of the workforce.

But this 180 ° turn was severely criticized by environmental groups. “The Obama administration gives way to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe. This is a huge victory for polluters and a huge loss to public health,” lamented Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters.

Ed Markey, Democrat elected to the House of Representatives and member of the committee on natural resources, expressed disappointment. The draft regulation, he said, “would have helped prevent thousands of Americans from respiratory and cardiac diseases.”

Libya Conflict Goes On

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Obama and Sarkozy agree to continue their military effort as Gaddafi and his family have not surrendered.

Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed Tuesday to continue their military effort in Libya as Muammar Qaddafi and his family have not surrendered, announced on Tuesday the Elysée in a statement. The American and French presidents, who spoke by telephone, also expressed their desire to “unite the international community behind the Libyan people to help initiate the transition policy in a spirit of reconciliation and national unity,” said a statement. The goal is “building a new Libya, democratic and pluralistic.”

In this regard, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy stressed the valuable contribution improvements related to the organization next to Paris for an international conference in support of Libya. Libyan insurgents entered Tuesday inside the fortified complex of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli and fired shots into the air to celebrate. The Libyan leader, who claimed to be healthy, but assured the President of the International Federation of Chess (FIDE) Kirsan Ilioumdjinov, he was determined to fight to the end.