"Obama clarifies view on Jerusalem
Barack Obama, in an interview that aired yesterday on CNN, said that he used "poor phrasing" in a speech supporting Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
"This was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent."
No, but some want a wall!
"Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon suggested rerouting the barrier between Israel and much of the West Bank so that it would exclude numerous Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem"
Obama's campaign has issued similar clarifications since the candidate's speech to a pro-Israel lobby group after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination early last month.
In the speech, Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that if elected president in November, he would work for peace with a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and dismay. Palestinians want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, for a future capital (Reuters July 14, 2008)."
