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  • Olmert Wants Jerusalem Left Out of Early Pact with PA/wants to achieve Bush's goal

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...sh.aspx/148293

    (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants to achieve American President George W. Bush's goal of an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) this year but doing so means that the issue of Jerusalem must be left for later, the Prime Minister's spokesman Mark Regev told reporters Monday. He made the remark as American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left the region after taking a harsher stance against Israeli building in eastern Jerusalem.

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    Re: Olmert Wants Jerusalem Left Out of Early Pact with PA/wants to achieve Bush's goa

    Israel brushes aside pressure over statehood deal

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/...rael_rice_dc_9

    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
    We know this is not going to go over with the Islamic world. They have repeatedly warned the west about getting the deal done now, with Jerusalem. It is like hanging a red flag in front of Iran.

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      Re: Olmert Wants Jerusalem Left Out of Early Pact with PA/wants to achieve Bush's goa

      How are the arabs reporting this...
      Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera's Middle East analyst, said that the continued building reflects a lack of American political will to pressure Israel.

      "Rice's statement that the settlements may harm the peace process underscores a lack of American will to pressure Israel to stop the illegal construction that is eating up Palestinian lands," she said.

      "Washington is effectively allowing Israel to predetermine the final status of the West Bank and east Jerusalem rendering final status talks meaningless."


      Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian negotiator, called the Israeli announcement on continued building a part of "a systematic policy to destroy the peace process".
      http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...89C0894807.htm

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        Re: Olmert Wants Jerusalem Left Out of Early Pact with PA/wants to achieve Bush's goa

        OK, so leave Jerusalem out, settle everything else and finalize Jerusalem in seven years?

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