I ask all FReepers to pray for the safety of my son in the IDF, who is on duty in the Jordan Valley.
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Posted on 09/15/2004 1:21:26 PM PDT by yonif
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House insisted on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is committed to the U.S.-backed road map Middle East peace plan, despite his comments in a newspaper interview that suggested otherwise. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said he did not think that accounts of Sharon's comments to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth accurately reflected the prime minister's views.
"Prime Minister Sharon has reaffirmed his commitment to moving forward on his bold proposal to move out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank," McClellan said.
"That is a proposal that can help get us jump-started again on the road map which is the path toward the president's two-state solution," he said. "I think that's what the prime minister was talking about -- moving forward on his disengagement plan."
Sharon was quoted in Yedioth Ahronoth as saying: "Even now we are not following the road map."
He also said that he did not envisage any Israeli withdrawals from territory captured in the 1967 Middle East War once it carries out his unilateral plan to "disengage" from Gaza and a small part of the West Bank by late 2005.
Launched by President Bush in June 2003, the road map sets out steps, including an end to Palestinian violence and a freeze on Israeli settlement activity on occupied land, toward a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Israeli border police officer fire tear gas canisters at protesters during a demonstration against the construction of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Deir Samit, west of the southern town of Hebron, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2004. Israeli construction crews, seen in the background, uprooted several Palestinian-owned olive groves to make way for the separation barrier, sparking clashes between troops and Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters with the troops firing a volley of tear gas and sound bombs into the crowd.
almost a shame-they're not using the correct ammunition in this picture...
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