“The Palestinians have a set of obligations, some of which the Palestinian Authority have met, some of which they have not been as strong on.  We want to encourage them to clamp down on violence, to end the incitement that you still hear, unfortunately, in many Palestinian communities." --President Barack Obama, July 2, 2009

By Natasha Mozgovaya

One day after a tripartite summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders yielded no tangible results, United States President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks "without preconditions."