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Originally posted by SLM3
Ya know, I was trying to think of which man is responsible for the most Palestinian deaths, but I just can't seem to narrow it down to one!
Sharon and his party don't want peace, that's obvious in their official objection to a Palestinian state. It makes me wonder who's not letting who relax.
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<b>SLM3</b> I wonder if recent news on Isreali and Palestinian positions towards the road map have begun to make you even start reconsidering who really wants peace.
Excerpt from AP article
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...he_new_sharon_
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"No one knows for certain if Sharon truly has become a born-again peace-seeker, or whether he remains the same old wolf in sheep's clothing," Shalev wrote in the Maariv daily Tuesday.
The latest chapter of Sharon's seeming transformation began Friday, when he reluctantly accepted, with a string of reservations, the U.S.-backed "road map" plan that envisages the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005.
Two days later, he convinced his hawkish Cabinet to conditionally endorse the deal.
On Monday, he faced down angry hardliners in his Likud Party with remarks that stunned many Israelis.
"To keep 3.5 million people under occupation is bad for us and them," he said. "This can't continue endlessly." </i>
Excerpt from another AP article
http://www.canada.com/search/story.a...c-71bf0bfcfbbf
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JERUSALEM (AP) - A message from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat that he, not his new prime minister, is in charge of peace talks with Israel has thrown a planned Israeli-Palestinian summit into confusion...
...A member of the PLO executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, explained that the jockeying for position was Arafat's way of telling the United States, Israel and Abbas that Arafat makes the decisions over negotiations with Israel, using the PLO executive to make the point. </i>