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CAIRO (Reuters) - President Bush called Egypt's president on Tuesday to underline his commitment in his second term to working toward a Palestinian state, Egyptian state media said. Bush outlined a Middle East peace plan supporting the creation of a Palestinian state in June 2002, but only once the Palestinian people dumped their president, Yasser Arafat. Arafat's fate was mired in confusion on Tuesday as French doctors contradicted reports by senior Palestinian officials that the veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital. Bush, re-elected for a second term last week, called Arafat an obstacle to peace. Since sidelining him...

Jewish law says (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, ch. 329) that if an enemy comes to a border city and demands "[only] straw and hay," we are obligated to take up arms (even on the Shabbat) and wage battle against them. For once the border city is conquered; it is easier to overrun the rest of the country. Today we are dealing with avowed enemies who are demanding nothing less than the border city itself! Unfortunately we are witnessing today the tragic results of those misguided "peace efforts," by politicians who did not heed the word of halacha (Jewish law). This...

Thursday, April 15, 2004 Pres. Reagan: No Palestinian State, No return to '67 borders, Pres. Reagan: No Palestinian State, No return to '67 borders, Undivided Jerusalem www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1982/90182d.htm Address to the Nation on United States Policy for Peace in the Middle East September 1, 1982 My fellow Americans: Today has been a day that should make us proud. It marked the end of the successful evacuation of PLO from Beirut, Lebanon. This peaceful step could never have been taken without the good offices of the United States and especially the truly heroic work of a great American diplomat, Ambassador Philip...

Both Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President George Bush reiterate their commitment to the Roadmap in their statements and exchange of letters in Washington today. President Bush's remarks, however, in no way indicate that he accepts Israel "14 Reservations" regarding the Roadmap. Therefore: The Palestinians will not be obligated to actually successfully complete any operation against the terror infrastructure - just "declare" and "begin" operations = photo opportunities. Neither Israel nor the United States but instead "the consensus judgment of the Quartet" will determine if the time has come to establish a sovereign Palestinian state in the evacuated areas -...

Although Labor and the Likud differ in their views on the solution to the Palestinian question, we both oppose in the strongest terms the creation of a Palestinian "mini-state" in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, first and foremost because it cannot solve anything. It certainly will not be able to absorb the almost million and a half Palestinians who currently reside beyond these two areas; and just as surely it will be ruled by the most extreme faction in the Palestinian political spectrum - the PLO. Such "internal" Palestinian politics might not be any of Israel's business were...

NEW YORK - Contrary to media reports that the Bush Road Map proposes to create a Palestinian Arab state in the year 2005, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out that the plan, in fact, calls for establishing such a state within five months, by the end of this year. "Phase II" of the Road Map plan, which is defined as ending in December 2003, includes "creation of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders". Those "provisional" borders are to become "final, permanent" borders in Phase III of the plan, which is defined as ending in 2005. ZOA National...