Re: the Silence is Deafening...the Iraq Study Group report
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Re-start the dialogue between Palestinians and Israel, with the aim of quickly bringing about statehood for the former.
[/ QUOTE ] [This] has not been opposed by Bush.
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This has not been supported by Bush either, and that is clearly the point of the report if you read that section as well as the more general commentary on US diplomacy in the region.
[/ QUOTE ]Precisely.
American allies, such as Musharaf, the Jordanian KJing or the Iraqi PM, have been openly saying this for months, if not years. That at the core of the whole tension in the region is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Dubya once proclaimed (to an audience of mostly secular and quite astonished Palestinians) that God has told him to get the Palestinians a state of their own. Afterwards, it seems, the Almighty changed course.
Mickey Brausch
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