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...foreign policy maintains, but are in fact part of Israel. Now House Republican leader Dick Armey has reportedly upped the ante, suggesting that Israel had no reason to hand over occupied territory to the Palestinians and that instead "the Palestinians should build their national home within a neighboring Arab country." Problem is that there are 3.5 million Palestinians who don't share Armey's view that they should just pack up and leave their homes because of some conservative Republican's ideological fancy. Indeed, someone may want to gently remind the House GOP leader that ethnic cleansing is just...
...requires rapid progress towards settling the conflict by creating a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon has made abundantly clear that he's not interested in any near-term political settlement nor in any version of Palestinian statehood that would satisfy even the most moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders. The Israelis hope that a dossier of evidence purporting to prove Yasser Arafat's links to terrorism will convince Washington to support Sharon's refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians under his leadership. But that's unlikely, since the administration has already made clear that no matter...
...President Bush's positions demoralized European and Arab diplomats engaged in efforts to revive the peace process - and even the Israeli peace camp. All were looking to the U.S. to establish a political solution based on the 1967 borders. That, they felt, would be the carrot Palestinian leaders could offer to their constituents: End violence now, and we'll have our own Palestinian state. Bush did clearly say that Israel would have to end its occupation of territories conquered in 1967. But he did not address how the Palestinians could begin the necessary reforms while the Israeli military has everyone...
...left to their own devices, are unlikely to achieve such a mechanism. And there was no indication, either in the speech, or from administration officials spinning it afterward, that Washington has any new ideas on breaking the Palestinians and Israelis out of the current patterns of violence. Indeed, both Arab and Israeli commentators took the President's speech as an endorsement of Israel's latest West Bank offensive...
...Some analysts have even suggested that the position outlined in the speech signifies that President Bush has, in fact, washed his hands of any short-term intervention in the crisis, no matter how desperate the appeals from Arab and European capitals. But the true test of his administration's intentions will be its response, if any, to the violence on the ground that looks set to escalate in the weeks ahead...