Did President Obama in his Cairo speech signal a new toughness towards the Arab-Israeli peace process?
Past presidents have opposed Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In Cairo, Mr. Obama said plainly that the US will not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity.
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as in some other stories, the focus here is primarily on the israeli/ palestinian conflict and how pres.obama's speech was from a different perspective, and includes some listeners' responses to this. it mentions some other items he discussed, but without discussion or comment. neither this article nor the wash.post one includes what he said about the u.s.-muslim relationship, nor about 'violent extremism'.
