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Barack Obama, who in a recent trip to Israeli said their nation was a 'miracle', has convinced Arabs and Iranians he will put Jewish interests first if he becomes U.S. president, leading many Arabs to say 'tell me something I don’t know.' When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many in the region believe, Obama would display the same bias in favor of the Jewish state that they now expect from any White House occupant - even one with a Muslim name and African roots. 'There will be minor changes if Obama is elected, but he will never side with the Palestinians against the Israelis. He knows he can't afford that,' said Lana Bazzi, 20, a student in Beirut, citing the power of the Jewish lobby in America. Obama declared last month that Jerusalem must be Israel's undivided capital, infuriating Palestinians who demand the Arab east of the city as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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from Al Jazeera
The Israeli prime minister had defied US demands to suspend a settlement construction project in East Jerusalem, sparking what Washington calls "intense" negotiations between the allies.
Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not take orders on where Jews can live and reiterated the claim that a united Jerusalem is Israel's capital, which most of the world does not recognise.
"We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem," Netanyahu declared, calling Israeli sovereignty over the entire city "indisputable".
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see toon at top... And try to make sense of the mixed US signals...