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AQABA, Jordan — "Important progress" toward implementing the "road map" for Mideast peace was made in a meeting Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, President Bush said in Jordan.
"The journey we're taking is difficult, but there is no other choice," Bush said at a press conference following a meeting with the foreign leaders. "No leader of conscience can accept more months and years of humiliation, killing and mourning. I know that peace can finally come."
I believe that parts of Europe should realize that the United States is serious in its attempt to see that peace comes to the Middle-East. It may be a hard lesson for one of them to learn but the toleration of the obstructionist path that France has chosen to take in this regard is not going to be tolerated by this administration and, hence: this nation. France, for whatever reason, keeps dragging Arafat back into the picture and as long as Arafat has any say there will never be any type of lasting agreement. Hamas acts at the whim of Arafat and Arafat has no place in a peaceful Middle-East.