Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama is on his way to Ramallah at this moment and has scheduled talks for one hour with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, PA negotiators and possibly PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. An unusually large number of PA security forces are on hand to prevent disturbances.
PA aides said that they will tell Sen. Obama that supporting Israel does not mean that Israeli should be allowed to maintain a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. The Senator also is scheduled to visit Sderot.