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To: LindyBill who wrote (99658)	5/31/2003 12:38:06 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<He also gave the Israeli newspaper Haaretz an updated assessment of Israeli interests. "Eventually there will be a Palestinian state," he declared. "I do not think that we have to rule over another people and run their lives. I do not think that we have the strength for that. It is a very heavy burden on the public, and it raises ethical problems and heavy economic problems." He added, "We will be ready to carry out very painful steps," and he confessed to an inner conflict: "Our whole history is bound up with these places ? Bethlehem, Shiloh, Beit El. And I know that we will have to part with some of these places. . . . As a Jew, this agonizes me. But I have decided to make every effort to reach a settlement. I feel that the rational necessity to reach a settlement is overcoming my feelings." He is 75, he noted, with no further political ambitions. >>> No need to physically own these historic cities or to give them up. Make them into Holy cities, a no mans land , an everyones land, free to all. Protected under a UN Resolution with teeth. Aren't they proposing peace? Anyone committing a crime at the site gets extradited and goes before an International court with hanging judges. We purposely saved the Mosques in Iraq, and therefore respect others Religions Sig . .

To: LindyBill who wrote (99658)	6/1/2003 3:32:48 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Just signed about an hour ago...Bush, Putin Urge N. Korea, Iran on Weapons washingtonpost.com By TERENCE HUNT The Associated Press Sunday, June 1, 2003; 2:53 AM washingtonpost.com ST. PETERSBURG - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin urged North Korea and Iran on Sunday to halt development of nuclear weapons, and Bush stood by his assertion that Iraq had prohibited arms. Both the United States and Russia are "determined to meet the threats of weapons of mass destruction," Bush said at a joint news conference. "We strongly urge North Korea to visibly, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program." He added: "We are concerned about Iran's advanced nuclear program and urge Iran to comply in full with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." Bush answered tersely when asked about the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - his primary justification for going to war with Iraq. "We've discovered weapons systems, biological labs, that Iraq denied she had, and labs that were prohibited under the U.N. resolutions," Bush said. Earlier this weekend, Bush pointed to two suspected biological laboratories found in Iraq which both the Pentagon and U.S. weapons hunters have said do not constitute arms. Russia opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, leading to friction with the United States. But both leaders said they were putting the dispute behind them. The "fundamentals of the relations between the United States and Russia turned out to be stronger than the forces and events that tested it," Putin said. Bush nodded in agreement, and said terrorism will unite the two countries. "We are working closely to confront the challenges of our time," Bush said. "Both of our countries have suffered greatly at the hands of terrorists, and our governments are taking action to confront this threat." Bush invited Putin to Camp David in September, and Putin seemed to signal with a nod that he accepted. The two leaders held their news conference while seated at massive twin white desks inside Konstantin Palace. They met privately for 45 minutes before the news conference. The leaders were asked whether they had made any headway in persuading Russia to scale back its sales of nuclear technology to Iran - transactions the Bush administration claims is helping Tehran to develop a nuclear weapons program. Russia has denied that its help is going toward weapons development. Iran says its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful development of electrical energy. "The position of Russia and the United States on the issue are much closer than they seem," Putin said. "We need no convincing about the fact that weapons of mass destruction proliferation should be checked and prevented throughout the world." © 2003 The Associated Press