Does anyone need any more evidence that EVERYTHING Obama says, does, think, and espouse is through the prism of his own re-election and self importance.   C’mon people this is way, way, way beyond the pale of manipulation.    Telling the Palestinians to wait until after he is re-elected and then he’ll drag Israel back to the table for their flogging around the principle of a “contiguous” Palestinian State based on “1967 borders”.    Friggin’ wake the hell up America.   Unreal.

JERUSALEM — The Obama administration asked the Palestinian Authority not to make any major demands until after the presidential election in November, a senior PA official told KleinOnline.

The PA official, speaking on condition his name be withheld, said that Obama promised to renew stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the basis of the 1967 borders, meaning an Israeli withdrawal from eastern sections of Jerusalem as well as from Judea and Samaria, also referred to as the West Bank.

“We were asked by the (U.S.) administration not to make special demands or scandals during the elections,” said the official.

“After elections, the negotiations will be renewed on basis of the Clinton plan, and Obama’s speech in Cairo of the 1967 borders,” the official said.  The official, however, said the U.S. will press for a Palestinian state quickly if President Obama is reelected.

“The main message we received from the U.S. is that nothing will happen in a serious way before the 2012 elections,” said the official.  (read more)