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Sen. Barack Obama will speak in Berlin before the Victory Column in the Tiergarten with the Brandenburg Gate just down the road.
Germany has swiftly developed a serious case of Obama-mania. Obama's high standing goes beyond his opposition to the Iraq War, which has always been unpopular here. The sudden crush is intimately bound up with the near constant comparisons here between the young senator from Illinois and President John F. Kennedy - still admired in Germany and particularly in Berlin - which have stuck fast as his identity in the German press. The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, "The New Kennedy." The tabloid Bild went with, "This Black American Has Become the New Kennedy!
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Obama begins European tour
Spectators wait for Obama in Berlin [EPA]
Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, has reached Berlin, the German capital, starting the European leg of an international tour.
Shortly after arriving on Thursday, Obama held talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, followed by meetings with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, and Klaus Wowereit, the Berlin mayor.
Obama was to deliver a speech on US-European relations in the city's Tiergarten park, an event expected to draw a large crowd.
He will go on to France and Britain after concluding his Germany visit.
On the flight to Berlin from Israel, where he just completed his Middle East tour, Obama said he wanted the US and Europe to rediscover their common ground.
"There is no doubt that part of what I want to communicate on both sides of the Atlantic is the enormous potential of us restoring a sense of coming together," he said.
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He played down comparions with the late president John F Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" vow to the then-divided city in 1963, or Ronald Reagan's call in 1987 to "Tear down this wall".
"They were presidents, I am a citizen," he said.
But Obama defended himself against claims that he is defying convention by campaigning abroad, saying he wanted to speak to the whole of Europe so he needed a big venue.
"The people in the crowd are not voters, in that sense, it is not designed to get them to the polls," he said.
"It is not a political rally, hopefully it will be viewed as a substantive articulation of the relationship I would like to see between the United States and Europe."
'Two state' commitment
During his Middle East tour on Wednesday, Obama said that he backed Israel's decision not to negotiate with the Palestinian group Hamas, in a visit to Israel and the West Bank.
Speaking in the town of Sderot, which has been hit by rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza, Obama said the US also supported Israel's right to defend itself "against those who threaten its people".
He also reiterated his position that Jerusalem "will be" the capital of Israel.
Obama holds a t-shirt given to him by the mayor of Sderot [AFP]
But Obama said that he believed the city to be a "final status issue" that must be decided by negotiation and said he remained committed to a two-state solution to the conflict.
The status of Jerusalem remains one of the most contentious parts of any solution to the Middle East conflict.
In June Obama caused anger in the Arab world when he said that Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital.
The international community, including the United States, does not recognise Israel's claim that Jerusalem is its undivided capital and Palestinians hope to have East Jerusalem, currently occupied by Israel, as the capital of any future Palestinian
