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To: StormRider who wrote (1905)	7/3/2002 5:07:33 PM
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IS NATAN SHARANSKY WORKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE SPEECHWRITING OFFICE? Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 7/2/02 washingtonpost.com Is Natan Sharansky working in the White House speechwriting office? Sharansky, Israel's housing minister and deputy prime minister, is the former Soviet dissident and head of a right-wing Russian-immigrant party. But by coincidence -- or something more -- the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Sharansky published in the Jerusalem Post on May 3 sounds a lot like the peace proposal Bush delivered in the Rose Garden on June 24. "The time has come for new leadership" for the Palestinians, Sharansky wrote. "The Palestinians must be encouraged to form an open and free society that is not burdened by the fear, hatred, and terror that have been sown in recent years by Arafat and his leadership." Here's Bush's version: "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror." Sharansky wrote that his seven-point plan "cannot happen overnight" and called for a "three-year transition period." Bush, in turn, said a final agreement "could be reached within three years from now..." Speechwriting director Michael Gerson did not return a phone call asking about the coincidence.