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That Colin Powell emerged relatively empty-handed from his Mideast trip to promote the U.S. 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...
...Sharon's reading of U.S. domestic politics, and his close relationship with the Bush White House, leaves him relatively comfortable in playing hard-to-get even on President Bush's own "roadmap" - or at least, in cherry picking his favorite bits and ignoring the more distasteful aspects...
...Neither side, of course, will have been surprised at the contents of the "roadmap" - its prescriptions for reviving the peace process are essentially a collation of recommendations in the Mitchell Report, the Tenet "work plan" and the Zinni cease-fire proposals. Two years of truce initiatives have come to naught, and if anything, the conflict is even more intractable now. The "roadmap" concept may be an attempt to bridge Israeli and Palestinian concerns by linking a cease-fire to a "political horizon" for Palestinian statehood, but it contains no new magic formula for resolving the basic standoff over security...
...rejected by us." SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN, leader of Hamas, on the "roadmap" for peace in Israel and Palestine put forward by the U.S. last week...
...roadmap" initiative reflects a growing sense of urgency among America's allies for the Bush administration to act decisively to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its premise is that this can be done only by achieving two basic goals - guaranteeing Israeli security, and ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian leaders say Israel's security cannot be guaranteed as long as it maintains its occupation; Israeli leaders say the occupation cannot be ended while terrorists threaten Israel's security. Hence the "roadmap," reminding the two sides of what must be done in order to break...