<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Mark Landler & Steven Lee Myers]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=22805Author <![CDATA[Obama: '67 Borders Starting Point for Peace Deal]]> Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 WASHINGTON — President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region’s most intractable problem.

A day before the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Obama declared that the prevailing borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — adjusted to some degree to account for Israeli settlements in the West Bank — should be the basis of a deal. While the 1967 borders have long been viewed as the foundation for a peace agreement, Mr. Obama’s formula of...]]>