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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (16254)	6/9/2002 10:57:19 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Richnorth, did you read anywhere about a timetable for Israel to pull out of West Bank and to the 1967 borders? Palestenians will agree to non-violence if Israel agrees to non-aggression. This post from Jerusalem Post: Sarid calls on Bush to pressure Sharon on settlements The Jerusalem Post Staff Opposition leader and Meretz MK Yossi Sarid yesterday called on President George W. Bush to pressure Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to completely freeze building in West Bank settlements when the two meet Monday. Sarid was quoted by Israel Radio as saying Bush should be aware that although Sharon, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres have issued promises about freezing building there, in effect this was not carried out. Dozens of new settlements were founded using "diverse tricks" during this government's term, Sarid said. "Just as Arafat lies to the entire world about terror," he said, "so do Sharon and his men about the settlements." Peres said Friday that one of the ideas being considered for the Sharon-Bush talks was to base a Mideast solution on a settlements-for-refugees compromise. "There is something new emerging in the United States which says that the Palestinians will give up on the right of return in exchange for Israel giving up on all the settlements" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Peres told Israel Radio. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat asked the United States Friday to convene a Mideast peace conference as quickly as possible. Arafat, whose Ramallah-based Mukata compound was raided by IDF troops on Thursday in retaliation for a bus bombing that killed 17 Israelis, called for quick action regarding the Mideast crisis conference scheduled in Turkey next month. "I am telling Bush and Mubarak to accelerate their efforts to save this peace process before it collapses," Arafat told reporters at his headquarters. jpost.com