Word: reeker
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...White House is alarmed. "Israeli incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas have contributed a significant escalation in tension and violence," a State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said Monday. "Israeli Defense Forces should be withdrawn immediately from all Palestinian-controlled areas, and no further such incursions should be made. We deeply regret and deplore Israeli Defense Force actions that have killed numerous Palestinian civilians over the weekend. The deaths of those innocent civilians under the circumstances reported in recent days are unacceptable, and we call upon Israel to ensure that its armed forces exercise greater discipline and restraint...
...concerns that have forced the White House to take on the role of Mideast peace enforcer it had so strenuously avoided. Not that the U.S. is easing up on Arafat. "Failure on the part of the Palestinian Authority to confront terror in a decisive manner is absolutely unacceptable," said Reeker. But there's nothing new in that. What is new is the insistence that Sharon's tactics are unable to produce the calm Washington now desperately needs in the West Bank and Gaza. Again Reeker: "We call upon both sides to do all they can to halt this continuing dangerous...