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Last Update: 06/02/2005 20:55 Rice urges Israel to avoid unilateral steps on J'lem By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent Haaretz Staff and AgenciesPrime Miniser Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ahead of their talks in Jerusalem on Sunday. (AP) Condoleezza Rice laying a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and President Moshe Katsav, and urged them to maintain the status quo over Jerusalem, and avoid taking any unilateral steps on the disputed capital which...

Dec. 19, 2003 White House 'very pleased' with Sharon's speech By ASSOCIATED PRESS President George W. Bush's spokesman reacted warmly Friday to much of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's latest prescription for dealing with the Palestinians. "We were very pleased with the overall speech," spokesman Scott McClellan said in an apparent effort to offset published accounts that focused on his admonition Thursday that Sharon should not try to impose a settlement without negotiations. In an exchange Friday with reporters the White House spokesman offered no criticism of Sharon's speech Thursday in Herzliya in which the prime minister offered to remove...

NOTE: I am posting the same story from Ha'aretz (leftist) and Arutz 7 (far right) so that folks on Free Republic see the whole spectrum of Israeli reaction in one place. From Ha'aretz: Last Update: 24/11/2003 19:16Likud MKs slam Sharon's plans; PM reiterates statements By Gideon Alon and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday repeated his earlier statements he has become convinced there is no reason to wait for a new Palestinian government and that he is not rejecting "unilateral steps, not as concessions, but for the good of the State of Israel."...