BUSH BETRAYS ISRAEL

IN HIS MEETING WITH ABU MAZEN YESTERDAY, PRES. BUSH SAID THAT CHANGES TO THE INDEFENSIBLE 1948 ARMISTICE BORDERS (ACTUALLY, CEASE-FIRE LINE FOLLOWING THE ARAB WAR OF AGRESSION AGAINST ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE), MUST BE AGREED TO BY THE PALESTINIANS!!!

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON? COLIN POWELL'S NOT EVEN AROUND TO BLAME FOR THIS ONE.

Bush says Israel needs Palestinian consent to keep territory won in 1967.
“Time is becoming our greatest enemy,” Abbas said toward the end of a three-day visit during which he projected himself as the peaceful successor to Yasser Arafat and depicted the Palestinians as long suffering at the hands of Israel. Arafat, who died last November, was never invited to the White House by Bush.

Laying claim to all the land the Arabs lost to Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, including east Jerusalem, Abbas said, “It is time for our people, after many decades of suffering and dispossessions, to enjoy living in freedom on their own land.”

The boundaries of a future Palestinian state should be those that existed before the 1967 war, he said, meaning before Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

At a joint news conference in the sunlit Rose Garden, Bush lent a measure of support to the Palestinians’ territorial demands. He said Israel needed Palestinian consent to retain land the Arabs lost 38 years ago. Any changes Israel made in expanding its boundaries since the end of the 1948 war for independence “must be mutually agreed to,” Bush said.

And he said Israel must remove illegal makeshift outposts from the West Bank and stop expanding Jewish settlements. Notably, the president did not repeat the support he voiced last year during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for Israel retaining large settlements on the West Bank near Jerusalem. Later, a senior administration official who refused to be identified said Bush stood by past statements supporting Israel's claims to the settlements. ...

Palestinians were ecstatic. “The president has finally committed himself in public to a specific, exceptionally strong vision,” said Ziad Asali of the American Task Force on Palestine, an advocacy group.