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February 10th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda While officials in Tel Aviv and Washington have been discussing details of President Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Israel for weeks, a senior PA official said its leadership in the West Bank learned about Obama’s trip from news reports, further deepening their suspicions about the US role, The New York Times reports Sunday.
Obama’s scheduled March 20 tour of Israel, his first foreign trip of his second term in office, is not expected to lead to a “summit meeting” between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to the report.
“Even a return to the negotiating table feels far off,” the report adds, citing “analysts and people inside each government.”
Moreover, the White House has tried to “lower expectations” about the visit, clarifying that Obama has no plans to offer a new “initiative” during the formal tour, which was “supposed to be” announced during his annual State of the Union address in Congress on Tuesday, “but news leaked out last week as an advance team visited Jerusalem (al-Quds),” the report notes.
Obama, according to the daily, will “most likely spend a few hours in the West Bank,” either “sitting” with Abbas or touring a development project with his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
This is while Obama plans to stay in al-Quds for two days, meeting with leaders of the Israeli regime and deliver a speech “either in Parliament or at a university.”
Washington is expected to soon release USD200 million in aid that it has withheld from the financially troubled PA for months. “There is talk of giving the Palestinians partial control over some areas of the West Bank” where the Israeli regime currently occupies, the report states, adding that some Palestinian prisoners may be released by the regime “as a gesture.”
Additionally, the daily emphasizes, “some Israelis and Americans are pushing the idea of at least a partial freeze of Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank in exchange for a promise by the Palestinians to postpone plans to use their new upgraded status at the United Nations to pursue claims against Israel in the International Criminal Court.”
Meanwhile, the report quotes Mohammed Shtayyeh, a close adviser to PA President Abbas as saying, “Coming is not enough; we wait to see what he is carrying,” referring to Obama’s upcoming trip.
“All settlements in Palestine are illegal, illegitimate,” said Shtayyeh. “You pick and choose whatever suits you and ignore the rest of it – that’s not making peace; this is a joke. Our strength is that we will never say yes to something that will jeopardize our rights.”
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