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did president obama s message today strike the right tone? today, the president tries to calm the waters. reaction from israel s ambassador to the u.s. michael orr orrin, and then from the chief palestinian representative to the u.s., mayan ar acat. analysis. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. in his speech, president obama addressed the controversy from his thursday s speech. that was my reference to the 1967 alliance with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion s share of the attention, including just now. since my position has been misrepresented several times, let me reaffirm what 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps means. by definition, it means that the parties themselves, israelis and palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on june 4th, 1967. that s what mutually agreed upon swaps means. it is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. it allowed the parties themselves t

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