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• ANALYSIS / Obama's Nobel win seen as 'daring' bet on future
• Israel leaders hail Obama Nobel win, hope for 'new era of peace'
• Obama 'surprised and deeply humbled' by Nobel prize
• Jordanians protest Israeli measures in East Jerusalem
• Jordan's King to Haaretz: Nuclear transparency applies to Israel as well

ANALYSIS / Obama's Nobel win seen as 'daring' bet on future Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:06 AM PDT Barack Obama is not the first Nobel laureate to win mainly for raising hopes of a better world, rather than achieving peace. But rarely, experts say, does a politician win so soon after gaining power and without a major foreign policy accomplishment under his belt. ...

Israel leaders hail Obama Nobel win, hope for 'new era of peace' Posted: 09 Oct 2009 10:54 AM PDT Israel's leaders congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday for winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing the hope that his presidency would "usher in a new era of peace." ...

Obama 'surprised and deeply humbled' by Nobel prize Posted: 09 Oct 2009 10:49 AM PDT Accepting 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Obama calls for Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace.

Jordanians protest Israeli measures in East Jerusalem Posted: 09 Oct 2009 09:19 AM PDT Thousands in the Jordanian cities of Amman and Zarqa on Friday demonstrated against Israel's measures at al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem. ...

Jordan's King to Haaretz: Nuclear transparency applies to Israel as well Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:11 AM PDT AMMAN - Since I last saw him, a bit more than two years ago, streaks of gray have appeared in the hair of the 48-year-old Jordanian king. Fifteen years ago, on October 26, 1994, Abdullah II's father and Yitzhak Rabin co-signed a peace treaty, and King Hussein spoke of the fine period the neighborhood was about to enter. Today, Jerusalem, the apple of the eye of the Hashemite dynasty (the peace agreement assigns Jordan a "role" in the eastern part of the city), is about to go up in flames; Mahmoud Abbas, the man who was supposed to extricate Jordan and Egypt from the unsplendid isolation of Arab recognition of Israel, played the Goldstone report like a rookie; Hamas is celebrating Israel's release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is breaking records in the opinion polls; and President Barack Obama is promising more than he is delivering. ...

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