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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the United States remains committed to the Middle East "roadmap" peace plan despite a fresh cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. @@"I still believe strongly that two states (Israel and Palestine)living side by side in peace is a hopeful vision for the future of the Middle East. The road map is still there," Bush told reporters when meeting with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah in the Oval Office. @@"The fundamental question is whether or not peaceful people will be on the road. And...

US Christian leader Pat Robertson has issued a stern warning to US President George W. Bush that any attempt to divide Jerusalem would cost him votes in next year's presidential election. "If he moves against Jerusalem, if he tries to partition Jerusalem, then I think Christian leaders across the country will rise up and speak out very forcefully against him, and it could hurt him in a close election," Robertson told The Jerusalem Post. The full text of the interview, which was conducted at Robertson's northern Virginia headquarters, will appear in Friday's paper. Robertson, a reverend and former Republican presidential...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday Israel and the Palestinians would fall off "a cliff" if they abandon a U.S. peace plan, and he urged Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to help stop attacks on Israel after a bomb killed 20 people in Jerusalem this week. U.S. officials fear Tuesday's attack by a suicide bomber from the Hamas militant group will unleash a fresh cycle of attack and retaliation, something that may already be happening as Israel killed a senior Hamas official and Palestinian militant groups called off their seven-week-old cease-fire. Powell, the main advocate...

(IsraelNN.com) Minister Uzi Landau said last night that “all of our gestures to the Palestinians and the Hizbullah are interpreted as weakness by the other side; and weakness invites terrorism, murder and death. Therefore, we must cease all good-will gestures.” The Road Map, Landau said, will be a trap for us as long as the Palestinians are not carrying out their obligations. Regarding the conflict in the north, Landau said, “In Lebanon, we’ve got to put an end to sending messages, as they have just brought terror down on us. It is time to start striking Syrian and Lebanese targets....

Dr. David Bukay of Haifa University's Political Science Department, speaking with Arutz-7 today, took a very clear stand: "Who cares which terrorist organization perpetrated the attack? What's important is that the PA is a terrorist organization, and that in 1993 we did not crush it, and that this continues to be the main problem right up until today. We have not yet understood that we must crush the Palestinian Authority." A-7: "Don't you see a difference between Abu Mazen and Arafat? After all, Abu Mazen even condemned today's attacks in public appearances to his own people." Bukay: "It's just like...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has aparently suspended all releases of Palestinian prisoners following this morning's double terror attack. According to news reports, all 77 prisoners who were set for release today will be kept in Israeli prisons, until further notice. The directive was issued after the prisoners had already been loaded onto buses for their rides home. The buses turned around and returned to the prisons, according to news reports.

U.S. President George W. Bush promised Jordan's King Abdullah in a telephone call on Saturday that Washington remained committed to the international roadmap for peace in the Middle East, according to a Jordanian Royal Court statement. Washington was "determined to fully implement" the plan which envisages the creation of an independent Palestinian state by the year 2005, the statement said. "Bush assured the King of his full support to the roadmap as well as the U.S. keenness to implement the plan in such a manner that leads to the re-establishment of peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis," the statement...

Under intensifying pressure from the U.S., the Defense Ministry took an unprecedented step on Friday ordering the IDF to dismantle several populated illegal outpost settlements some of which have begun to establish permanent housing structures. During his meetings last week in the White House, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apparently pledged to the American Administration that he would dismantle an additional 12 outpost settlements. Six outposts, varying in size from barren hills topped with a lone shipping container to mini-settlements with as many as 40 families living in semi-permanent or permanent homes, are slated for removal in the coming days and...

Israel will consider a Palestinian demand that fugitives in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin be allowed to move to Jericho in exchange for an Israeli guarantee that they will not be arrested if they adhere to the cease-fire, Israeli security officials said Thursday, following the Wednesday night meeting between Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and PA Minister of Security Muhammad Dahlan at Neveh Ilan. "The Palestinians have raised the demand in various meetings at different levels in the past, it was not rejected outright on Wednesday, it is being studied," an official said. According to media reports, two...

It's summer camp season. As Israeli Jewish children are learning to macrame and swim, 300 of their Israeli Arab friends in the Galilee are learning other lessons. Channel 10 Wednesday broadcast footage from "Camp Return" by Kabul village in the Western Galilee. The story was picked up Thursday in Ma'ariv. At Camp Return, children are not taught how to make beaded jewelry and popsicle stick houses. They are taught to aspire to kill Jews in suicide bombings. Saama Vakim, one of the campers, displayed her new necklace to the TV camera. It is a pendant of the map of Israel...

Israel will derail the roadmap and Palestinian hopes for peace if it continues to build the security fence between Israel and the Palestinians in the northern West Bank, the Jordan valley and around Jerusalem, Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmed Qurei told the Jerusalem Post on Monday from Jordan. This will also be the message Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas will deliver to US President George Bush in their meeting at the White House on Friday, he added. "The fence will kill everything it will destroy hope of the Palestinians...Israel should immediately stop building it", he said. According to Qurei who...

Quietly but persistently, the Oslo War continues - despite the declared hudna ceasefire and Israel's accompanying concessions. Palestinian terrorists opened fire at an IDF outpost in the northern Shomron this afternoon; no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire. A Palestinian-launched mortar shell exploded last night near Gadid in Gush Katif, and Arabs attacked an IDF outpost - twice - in the same region. In the Shomron last night, Arabs threw rocks at cars near Azoun and Peduel, causing damage but no casualties. Palestinian terrorists have murdered three people in the 19 days since the hudna was announced, amidst...

US President George W. Bush is mistaken to believe the Christian Right which strongly supports Israel is in his pocket for the 2004 election, Gary Bauer, a leading voice for this constituency, said Thursday. Bauer, on a four-day visit to Israel, admitted that this constituency which he said makes up the bulk of the Republican Party is not going to leave the Bush camp and vote instead for one of the Democratic contenders. However, if it appears that the Bush Administration is "browbeating" Israel into making concessions to terrorists, Bauer said a large number of these people may just sit...

Road map survey, By Ron Dermer Jul. 10, 2003 Hello. I'm conducting a survey on the road map to peace, and I'd like to ask you some questions. It will take only a few minutes of your time. The road map will succeed at bringing peace because a) The Palestinians have a new leadership not compromised by terror. b) The Europeans will monitor compliance. c) The younger generation of Palestinians has been educated for peace. d) None of the above. The road map is different from Oslo because a) There are no lawns in Aqaba. b) This time Israel is...

(IsraelNN.com) Adi Mintz, the Director General of the Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) Council has released an open letter sent today to US Middle East envoy John Wolfe regarding the outposts and other Yesha communities. The full text of the letter is as follows: 9 Tammuz 5763 July 9, 2003 Mr. John Wolfe Representative, U.S. Government Dear Mr. Wolfe, I wish to bring to your attention that the demands made by your government to evacuate "outpost communities" in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) are unjustified, immoral and detrimental to the war against terror. The State of Israel legally inhabits Yesha....

Israel's army chief and Hamas replaced weapons with words Thursday, each claiming victory after 33 months of bloody conflict, while a four-day-old truce appeared to hold despite new violence. Israel released several Palestinian prisoners, including Suleiman Abu Mutlak, a top Palestinian security official from Gaza. Palestinians demand that Israel free more than 5,000 people captured in Israeli sweeps, but Israel has only released several dozen, many of whom had served most of their sentences. Interviewed on Israel TV, Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian minister in charge of security, called for the release of 416 prisoners serving long sentences, saying they had...

What I’ve just gotta know is, in the mad rush for peace, did anybody bother to read the thing? Well, I did. I perused the approximately three hundred and fifty words, and not one of them is positive or even alludes to peace or hope. Don’t believe me? Read the little defected gem of a document for yourself at < A HREF="http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=17425">http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=17425. Don’t be daunted, it’s not like the text is full of complex legalese or anything. The words are as straight as the path of a sniper’s bullet and nothing we haven’t seen or heard before. Here’s just a...

21:58 Powell calls on Israel to pull back from West Bank cities and towns, relinquish control of them to Palestinian Authority

News Release The Zionist Organization of America Jacob & Libby Goodman ZOA House Phone: 212-481-1500 4 East 34th St. New York, NY 10016 Fax: 212-481-1515 e-mail: email@zoa.org Web Site: www.zoa.org June 26, 2003 Contact: (212-481-1500) No Surprise, Since PA'sPrime Minister is Holocaust-Denier   Holocaust Horror In Abu Mazen's Official PA Newspaper:"Zionists Collaborated With Nazis To Kill Anti-Zionist Jews"       NEW YORK- The official Palestinian Authority newspaper has asserted that Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust in order to kill anti-Zionist Jews and force other Jews to immigrate to Palestine. Such libels are an egregious violation...

Israel agreed to withdraw Wednesday from the West Bank town of Bethlehem, a Palestinian official said Monday afternoon. The agreement was reached Monday in a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian security officials. The pullback is in line with a U.S.-backed peace plan, which calls for an Israeli withdrawal to positions held before the outbreak of fighting 33 months ago. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.