By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:19 PM on 21st September 2011 President Barack Obama will today make a desperate push for the Palestinians to drop a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly today. Obama will follow up his speech with separate meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he seeks to coax both parties back to direct peace talks. But as U.S. officials attempt to steer Palestine away, unrest was growing in the West Bank today from residents calling for independence. President Barack Obama will try to talk Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas out of an official push for statehood
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Protesters gather in West Bank in support of Palestinian state
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Obama to make personal plea to leader Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas
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