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<p>For the first time ever, the Palestinian people have been told - clearly, concisely, precisely - what they must do if they are ever to achieve statehood.</p> <p>That's the welcome message President Bush issued yesterday in his bold Rose Garden speech on the Middle East.</p>

<p>June 25, 2002 -- PRESIDENT Bush yesterday proved that he is not only the best friend Israel has ever had, but the best friend the Palestinian people have ever had as well.</p> <p>The speech Dubya delivered outside the Oval Office was a turning point for truth-telling in the Middle East.</p>

U.S. attorneys in Oregon and that state's regional Social Security Administration announced the sentencing of Juventino Lira-Carmona, a Mexican national who had assumed the identity of a deceased American and used the decedent's Social Security number (SSN) to gain employment and illegally remain in the United States. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Lira-Carmona was arrested after filing a false application for a U.S. passport. Officials reported that he was placed on probation for one year and remanded immediately into the custody of agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for removal to Mexico. Whether...

My View The Trouble with Dr. Carroll by: Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. Dr. Warren Carroll is well known to many good Catholics for his fine historical work and for having founded Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. Many of us have been instructed and edified by this or that segment of his work over the years, and for these contributions of his we are indeed grateful. It is well known that Dr. Carroll is not a traditionalist. But he isn't of the Fr. Brian Harrison variety, i.e., someone who, while not himself a traditionalist, moves easily in traditional circles...

<p>President Bush, here in Newark yesterday, offered Palestinians a state in as soon as three years.</p> <p>June 25, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday bluntly told the Palestinian people they can have their own state within three years - but only if they dump Yasser Arafat.</p>

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- Dozens of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers working at the site of this week's G-8 summit became nauseous early Monday, and three were taken to a Calgary hospital. Const. Rob Dunnett of the RCMP said the officers at Nakiska camp, inside the security zone at the Kananaskis resort where the summit begins Wednesday, fell ill during the night. He said about 30 were treated at Nakiska camp. RCMP Const. Charlene Lewis said only three officers were hospitalized, and one had been released while the other two were being treated for dehydration. The cause of the...

JERUSALEM, June 25 (Reuters) - Israeli newspapers on Tuesday called U.S. President George W. Bush's Middle East policy speech calling for Palestinians to ditch Yasser Arafat a victory for the Jewish state. "Bush tells Palestinians: If you want a state get rid of Arafat," proclaimed the headline of the Ma'ariv newspaper. The other mass daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, quoted officials in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office as being pleased with the speech. Bush called on Palestinians to pick new leaders "not compromised by terror" to attain a state alongside Israel. He also said Israel must do its part for peace by...

<p>Even with the news that the Bush administration had some warning that al Qaeda was planning terrorist attacks, more Americans blame the Clinton administration for the intelligence breakdown prior to September 11.</p> <p>An Andres-McKenna survey taken earlier this month showed 31 percent of the 1,000 registered voters polled said the Clinton administration was "primarily at fault for that breakdown," while 20 percent said the Bush administration was at fault. Another 12 percent said both administrations were to blame, while more than a third — 36 percent — refused to blame either.</p>

<p>President Bush made it unmistakably clear yesterday that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat is the No. 1 obstacle to freedom and a good life for the Palestinians. Speaking from the White House, Mr. Continues.</p> <p>This wasn't a Presidential statement on Mideast policy as much as a bill of indictment of Arafat and co.</p>

President Vicente Fox on Monday said he was concerned by the phenomenon of Central American emigration into Mexico and the United States. Immigration is one of the issues he and his Central American counterparts will focus on at a regional summit scheduled for June 27-28 in Merida, Yucatan. Hundreds of Central American emigrants illegally cross into Mexico on their way to the U.S. every day. While most are detained and deported, the flow is increasing on a daily basis. During the first five months of this year alone, officials in the southern state of Chiapas expelled more than 30,000 immigrants...

<p>A House committee voted last night to kill the $11 billion Crusader artillery system and begin a search for a more mobile weapon, a victory for President Bush.</p> <p>The language is a retreat by lawmakers facing veto threats from the White House, which considers the proposed 40-ton Crusader a Cold War relic too cumbersome for an Army emphasizing mobility.</p>

Isn't it time for those who actually believed that the president's "new tone" in Washington would reduce partisanship to admit they were wrong? President Bush came to Washington promising a new tone of collegiality between the parties, and he did his part. Frankly, I've never bought into the "new tone" idea. Sure, people (including politicians) should treat one another with respect and courtesy because it's the right thing to do. But we shouldn't expect cordiality to lead to less partisanship, much less to better governance. And it hasn't led to either. You would be hard-pressed to deny that Bush did...

Within hours of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on Sept. 11, President Bush and other U.S. and western leaders were explaining that though we found ourselves in a state of war, that war was not with Islam. Nine months later, we're still confused about who our enemy is. If you have any chance of winning a war, you must be able to identify the enemy. Are we at war with Islam? Most definitely not. But, Islam is at war with us. In fact, Islam has been at war with the West, with Christianity, with Judaism –...

<p>JERUSALEM — The 20-year-old Palestinian woman lifted the pack onto her back last month and walked down the street to take her position, growing more uneasy with each step. She was wearing a Western-style midriff top and tight pants for the first time in her life, the better to blend into the crowd in the Israeli city of Rishon le-Zion.</p>

The very powerful presidents and prime ministers of the most industrialized countries of the world that include the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, Great Britain and Russia are meeting this week in the mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Frightened off by the protestors in Genoa who demanded a global tax to reduce the indebtedness of poor countries, these former warriors will be secluded from humanity as they consider "the state of the world." Canada, which chairs the G8 this year, decided the 5,000 feet-above-sea-level location. For the first time ever, they will be sequestered away from the public...

<p>Italy became the second-largest partner in development of the Pentagon's newest fighter jet yesterday with a deal to contribute $1 billion to the program.</p> <p>Six NATO countries have agreed to chip in more than $3.1 billion to help develop the $200 billion Joint Strike Fighter. The largest partner is the United Kingdom, which is contributing about $2 billion and plans to buy about 150 of the planes.</p>

Why does the left support the Palestinians against Israel? The question is rarely asked. It is simply taken for granted that the left – Europe, the Western news media, the universities, the liberal churches, the arts world – supports the Palestinians and the larger Arab-Muslim worlds in their war against Israel. But the question does need to be asked. For it is completely inconsistent with the left's professed values to side with Israel's enemies. Just about every value the left claims to uphold, Israel upholds and its enemies do not. The left speaks about its passion for democracy ("power to...

Almost any cop in America, if he or she has a verifiable reasonable suspicion, can pull over a vehicle to search it. At any courthouse, federal building or airport, you and all your goodies are also subject to search. Which is as it should be. We need to keep the streets safe, and we need to secure our government and air-travel facilities. So why in the name of Tom Ridge aren't we applying this same procedure to ships that might be transporting nuclear mayhem toward our shores at this very moment? Think about it – you're reading this article in...

Five days after the 300-member U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops refused to adopt full zero tolerance regarding the horror of priestly child rape, there came what was called for centuries ago by the Prophet Amos: "Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream!" On that very same day: The Associated Press reported "A grand jury in Boston is looking into whether criminal charges can be brought against Cardinal Bernard Law, in his allowing priests accused of molesting children to remain in positions where they could molest youngsters." The Washington Post reported from New York that a...

<p>PORT ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — President Bush yesterday assured port-security workers that his plans to create a Homeland Security Department would make the nation safer.</p> <p>Standing in the shadow of towering cargo loaders at New York Harbor, Mr. Bush said bringing more than 100 government agencies under the umbrella of his proposed Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security was the right thing to do.</p>