Bush To Pressure Sharon On Security Wall

[Nottingham]

Bush To Pressure Sharon On Security Wall
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Big News Network.com Monday 28th July, 2003

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon left for Washington Sunday, and will meet with U.S. President George Bush in Washington on Tuesday, Arutz Sheva reported.

The Bush-Sharon talks will focus, among other things, on the defensive security wall Israel is building between the Arab areas of Yesha, and the rest of Israel.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who met with Bush in Washington on Friday, found an "attentive ear" when he brought up the PA's opposition to the wall. It is assumed that Bush will "pressure" Sharon on this matter.

The Americans and the Palestinian Authority fear that the security wall will become a de facto border. Some right-wing groups in Israel also object to the wall, for similar reasons. The defensive value of the partition is also a matter of debate; some say that it will prevent at least some suicide terrorists from crossing into pre-1967 Israel, while others say that it cannot stop all suicide terrorists, nor can it stop rockets, and other forms of attacks.


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Remember the Wall! Still talking about it! :bounce:

[Nottingham]

1. Israel has many allies in Washington

"but one of them - Rep. Tom DeLay, who is arriving in the Middle East for a few days - said that he almost fell off his chair when he heard that Israel had agreed to the Road Map and a Palestinian State. He calls it the 'Road Map to destruction,' not 'to peace.' The Cheney-Rumsfeld alliance, the leading force in the administration, does not at support this process - but when they see such a green light coming from the direction of Israel, they turn their attention to North Korea, and Iran, and Iraq, and the like, and allow Powell-Tenet to handle the Israel-Palestinian issues..."


Ok I'm going to :puke: