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Tomorrow the Israeli prime minister meets the US president at the White House. The following week Obama will also meet the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders. america has signalled it wants solutions in the Middle East, but are the president's guests ready to make concessions?Late tomorrow morning President barack obama will welcome Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, into the Oval Office at the White House. Leave five minutes for the pleasantries, 30 seconds for the coffee to be poured, and 84 and a half minutes will remain to kick-start what is perhaps the most ambitious bid to bring peace to the Middle East for nearly a decade.Once again, true to his campaign motto of 'Yes we can', Obama is boldly plunging in where others fear to tread. May will see an extraordinary series of meetings for the new president: Netanyahu will be followed to the White House by President Mubarak of Egypt and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority. Other regional allies w

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In a 30-minute interview aboard Air Force One en route from Washington to Phoenix last Wednesday, President Obama talked with NEWSWEEK's Jon Meacham about Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Dick Cheney-and Star Trek. Edited excerpts:

The left-of-center U.S. president and the right-of-center Israeli prime minister meet at the White House on Monday. On the agenda? Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and Iran's nuclear ambitions. Though some analysts say the two leaders are on a collision course, there may also be new room for agreement.

The left-of-center U.S. president and the right-of-center Israeli prime minister meet at the White House on Monday. On the agenda? Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and Iran's nuclear ambitions. Though some analysts say the two leaders are on a collision course, there may also be new room for agreement.

The general chosen by barack obama to run the war in Afghanistan permitted abusive treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq according to human rights investigators.

Barack obama is to deliver a blunt warning to Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the era of the blank US cheque is over.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Days before a White House summit, the Obama administration signaled on Saturday that the U.S. president would press Israel's new government to endorse Palestinian statehood and halt settlement expansion.