US trying to avoid confrontation at UN over 'Palestinians'

Having dug his own grave in the Middle East, 19 months before the 2012 elections, President Obama suddenly wants out. The US administration has launched talks with Israel and the Palestinian Authority to avoid a situation where the Palestinians would ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo said on Monday. But the '