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...peace "roadmap" is no reflection on the Secretary of State's powers of persuasion - it's simply a reminder of the limits of the "roadmap" concept in the face of the situation on the ground in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and, of course, in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declined, at this stage, to endorse the "roadmap" that requires a sequence of steps by each side designed to achieve a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel within three years. Sharon may, of course, be saving that for his May 20 meeting with President Bush at the White House...
...whom he alternately describes as Israel’s “Amen Corner” in the U.S.—are intent on conquering some half a dozen Arab states by force. He has written that Bush is “subcontracting [our] Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon”—and, in the process, expanding an American empire...
...publication of the "roadmap," crafted by the U.S. in conjunction with the European Union, the UN and Russia. The document describing a series of steps required of both sides in order to realize peace and Palestinian statehood within three years was presented to Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday, and was due to be handed to Abbas later...
...deep suspicion of U.S. intentions. Again, this was about policy, not packaging: On the single issue on which Washington is, rightly or wrongly, most often judged in the Muslim world - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the Bush administration had for the most part simply folded its arms and let Ariel Sharon get on with it. No amount of soothing "communication" was going to alter the impressions thus formed. When President Bush insisted that "Ariel Sharon is a man of peace," Arab allies took it as a sign that the President was not seriously engaged with the Middle East...
...borders, and a mechanism for sharing Jerusalem. In that position he's likely to be supported by most of the Palestinian legislature and by the sponsors of the road map (although the Bush administration will likely be internally divided over just where Israeli-Palestinian borders should be drawn). But Ariel Sharon was not party to the Taba talks (they were conducted by the Barak government shortly before his election), and had vociferously rejected even Barak's more limited offer at Camp David the previous summer. Although Sharon has spoken recently of the need for "painful concessions" to achieve peace...