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...Even many Israelis sniggered last year when President Bush used the term "man of peace" to describe Ariel Sharon, legendary warrior and champion of the settler movement who had spent most of the previous decade ferociously opposing the Oslo Accords. But Sharon has kept everybody guessing as to his intentions by speaking the language of peace, promising to make "painful concessions" after the Palestinians stop all violence - and, most recently, causing consternation even in his own party by uttering the taboo word "occupation" to describe Israel's rule over the 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Such...
...business in the Middle East, which may be why Israeli and Palestinian leaders came through saying many of the things the White House wanted to hear at their three-way talks in Jordan Wednesday. Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas vowed to fight terror and incitement and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon promised to end the occupation, dismantle "illegal" settlement outposts and recognize a Palestinian state. But each man's words may mean different things on different sides of the divide, and the reality of Middle East peacemaking may prove to be more complex than the White House would like...
...like the word, but what's happening is occupation." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, describing Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza...
...reason Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas will meet with President Bush is the same reason the two are suddenly talking about implementing a sequence of steps designed to achieve an as-yet undefined Palestinian statehood within two years: both men know better than to cross the White House. Still, President Bush's summit with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, scheduled to be held next week in Jordan, is a calculated gamble. It is designed to revive of a peace process, and realize the pledge made by President Bush to Arab and European allies ahead...
...only Jewish student club on campus, was banned by the CSU in an emergency midnight meeting with not even half of council present. Due process, guaranteed in the CSU’s own constitution was waved aside. One doesn’t have to be a supporter of Ariel Sharon to see the injustice in such a decision...