Obama to Meet With Mideast Leaders ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - September 20, 2009 - 12:00am After a frustrating week of shuttle diplomacy here in which the Obama administration failed to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to renew peace talks, leaders of the two sides are heading to the United States to make their cases again that the administration should push the other harder. » Read more

Barak, Clinton may join Mideast summit at UN ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Natasha Mozgovaya - September 21, 2009 - 12:00am Defense Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will apparently participate in a tripartite meeting on Middle East peace in New York on Tuesday. U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, for a meeting all sides have declared would unlikely bring about an immediate resumption of peace negotiations. » Read more