Word: statehood
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...Israel wants President Bush to make a number of substantial changes and insists the priority is the ongoing terror threat and the failure of the Palestinian Authority to confront it. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made clear he has no interest in embarking on a road to Palestinian statehood as long as violence continues...
...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...
...Mazen) by the Palestinian Legislative Council had opened the way for the 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...
...role it says it was forced to fill because the Palestinian Authority failed to stop terror attacks. The Israeli government will relinquish that role only once the Palestinians have demonstrated both the will and the ability to ensure Israel's security, and has no interest in discussing Palestinian statehood before that time. But Palestinian leaders say they can't properly reconstitute their security services, let alone enforce an end to attacks on Israelis as long as the Israeli military maintains its security stranglehold on Palestinian territories. That impasse has dashed every U.S.-backed cease-fire effort over the past...
...first phase of the new peace plan envisages a cease-fire, a disarming of Palestinian militias, an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian towns and the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the West Bank built since 2001. The parties move quickly from there toward negotiating the final parameters of Palestinian statehood as early as 2005. But the map does not answer the basic question of how the two sides are to get past their inability to resolve the security standoff. The Bush administration had insisted on Abbas's confirmation as the precondition for publishing the document, but Israeli security chiefs and Palestinian...